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"Santa's Socks"
Santa is tired after a long night's work and his feet are cold. He goes to look for a warm pair of socks. His sock drawer is a mess. In his drawer, he has twenty black socks, 15 red socks, 32 green socks, 5 purple socks, 2 brown socks & 5 blue socks. Santa's in a hurry. The light is out in his closet and he can't see the color of the socks. The socks are of the same texture and material. Only the colors vary. How many socks must he remove and take to the other room to look at in the light, to be sure that he has at least one matching pair? |
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Answer to "Santa's Socks"
Santa needs to take at least seven socks out to the light so he can see the colors and patterns. There are six different colors or patterns and if he pulls out six or less, he could end up with all different socks.
However, if he pulls out seven socks, he will get at least one matching pair. |
"A Number "
I am a number. My units digit is the number of digits in me. My tens digit is half of my units digit. My hundreds digit is double my units digit. My thousands digit is half of my tens digit.
What number am I? |
Answer to "A Number"
1824. |
"$1500 "
The cashier of a bank pays out $1500, using a certain number of $1 bills, ten times as many $5 bills, a certain number of $10 bills, and twice as many $50 bills.
How many bills of each kind does the cashier pay out? |
Answer to "$1500 "
theres a long drawn out answer .. but heres the end results to all of it .....
The cashier paid out 10 $1 bills, 100 $5 bills, 9 $10 bills, and 18 $50 bills. |
"6 Numbers "
What do the number 3, 7, 8, 40, 50, and 60 have in common that NO other numbers do?
Hint if needed ... [Spell the numbers out.] |
Answer to "6 Numbers"
These are the only numbers that have 5 letters to spell them out. |
"Ham and Pork "
When Adam, Bob, and Carl eat out, each orders either ham or pork. 1.) If Adam orders ham, Bob orders pork. 2.) Either Adam or Carl orders ham, but not both. 3.) Bob and Carl do not both order pork. Who could have ordered ham yesterday and pork today? |
Answer to "Ham and Pork "
From 1.) and 2.), if Adam orders ham, Bob orders pork and Carl orders pork. This contradicts 3.), therefore, Adam orders only pork. Then from 2.), Carl orders only ham.
So only Bob could order ham yesterday and pork today. |
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"Coffee/Tea "
A market analyst works for an agency with very high standards.
The agency boasts that an employee's first mistake is his last.
The analyst reports that out of 100 consumers interviewed,
78 drink coffee; 71 drink tea; 48 drink both tea and coffee.
Why was the analyst fired? |
Answer to "Coffee/Tea"
Of the 78 who drink coffee, 30 (78-48) do not drink tea. Of the 71
who drink tea, 23 (71-41) do not drink coffee. The three
non-overlapping classes of consumers, coffee only (30), tea only
(23), and both (48) total 101. But only 100 consumers were
interviewed. This mistake cost the analyst his job. |
"Today"
Today is a very special day. It is the very last day of its kind in your lifetime, no matter how old you are. Try to figure out what makes 11/11/1999 so special. |
Answer to "Today "
Today, November 19, 1999, is the last day of your life where the date is specified with all odd digits (11/11/1999). The next possible such date is January 1, 3111 or November 11, 3111 depending on whether you write January 1, 3111 as 1/1/3111 or as 01/01/3111. |
"Secret Ages"
When Tom and Betty applied for their marriage license, the first thing they were asked was their ages. With a natural reluctance to reveal so important a secret, Betty said that they were both in their twenties, and wasn't that close enough. The clerk insisted on more specific information, however, so Tom added that they both had the same birthday, and that he was four times as old as Betty was when he was three times as old as Betty was when he was twice as old as Betty was. At this the clerk fainted, whereupon the young couple snatched up the license, hurried off to the preacher's, and lived happily ever after. When the clerk came to and realized that he would have to complete his records some way or other, he began to do a little figuring. Before long, he found out how old Tom and Betty were. Can you find out also?
this one is really quite cute . but the answer well is quite a trick here look for your selves ....... |
Answer to "Secret Ages "
Tom is 24 and Betty is 21. |
Four men..
Four men, one of whom was known to have committed a certain crime,
made the following statements when questioned by the police:
1. Archie: Dave did it.
2. Dave: Tony did it.
3. Gus: I didn't do it.
4. Tony: Dave lied when he said I did it.
If only one of these statements is false, who was the guilty man? |
Answer to "Four men"
One of statements 2 and 4 is true and the other is false.
If statement 2 is true, then Tony is guilty, and then
statement 1 is also false which is not possible.
Therefore, statement 2 is false and statement 4 is true.
Thus, statements 1 and 3 are also true which means that Dave is guilty. |
"Bank"
In a certain bank, the positions of cashier, manager, and teller are held by Brown, Jones, and Smith, but not necessarily in that order. The teller, who is an only child, earns the least. Smith, who knows
Brown's sister, earns more than the manager.
What position is held by each person? |
Answer to "Bank"
The teller cannot be Brown, since Brown has a sister,
while the teller is an only child.
And the teller cannot be Smith, since Smith does not
earn the least money. Therefore, the teller is Jones.
Smith earns more than the manager, so Smith is the cashier.
Therefore, Brown must be the manager. |
405 Fish
In a huge fish tank there are silver fish and blue fish. There are 405 fish altogether, and there are 125 more silver fish than blue fish.
How many fish of each color are there? |
Answer to "405 Fish"
Subtract the 125 from 405. The result is 280. 280 is the combined equal number of blue and silver fish (there are also 125 extra silver fish). Divide 280 by 2. The result is 140. 140 is the number of blue fish. Add 125 to 140. The result is 265. 265 is the number of silver fish. |
"Miles"
Amy and Marcus had walked a total of 10.5 miles in their school walk-a-thon. Amy had walked twice as far as Marcus. How many miles did Amy and Marcus each walk? |
Answer to "Miles"
Amy - 7 miles. Marcus - 3.5 miles. |
Brothers/Sisters
If LEAH is LOUIS's sister and
CLARISSE is BRUNO's sister and
MAUD is CHRISTOPHER's sister,
then who is HAMILTON's sister?
Is it IRENE, CLAIRE, SUE, or PEGGY?
hint: .. take a look at the letters not the kinship |
Answer to "Brothers/Sisters"
SUE.
The names of each brother/sister pair contain each of the five vowels once. |
Soccer Party
Several soccer teams are having a party. The team captains are putting square tables tightly together in one long row for the party. They can put two chairs on each side of a table. The tables are all
the same size. If they put together ten tables in a row, how many people can sit down? |
Answer to "Soccer Party"
44.
Two on the opposite sides of each of the ten tables and two more at the open end of the two end tables. |
"Pets"
Heidi and Cathleen visited a pet store to look at animals.
They looked at 3 more rabbits than birds.
They saw one half as many birds as kittens.
There were one third as many kittens as puppies.
They looked at 36 puppies.
How many animals did they look at altogether? |
Answer to "Pets"
Start at the back. 36 puppies.
One third of 36 is 12, therefore 12 kittens.
One half of 12 is 6, so 6 birds. 6 plus 3 is 9, so 9 rabbits.
Then 9 + 6 + 12 + 36 = 63 animals altogether. |