Answer to Riddle 15 - Drying Six Dresses
What? In
six hours? No, no, they will also dry in one hour. They are dried at the
same time.
Answer to Riddle 16 - Four Quart Milk
Oh, how
can you measure 4-quart of milk with such odd measures? Yes, you can. Take
your 5-quart measure, fill it with milk and pour it into your 3-quarter pot.
Two quarter milk remains in 5-quarter measure. This you should pour in your
customer's pot. Then take your 5-quart measure again, and repeat the
process. So again you are pouring 2 quart milk in your customer's pot. Like
this your customer will have 4 quarter milk in his pot.
Answer to Riddle 17 - Border Problem
Plane
has crashed. Where are the survivors? There is none.
Answer to Riddle 18 - Two Coins Problem
They are
a quarter (25) and a 5.
Answer to Riddle 19 - Add These
It is
three. Why? It seems that it could be either, but it is not so. You follow
the mathematical orders of operation, write it like this - (half of 2) 2/2 + 2. Division is
performed first, so 2/2 = 1. Then add 2 to the result - 1, that comes 3. So
the answer is 3 not 4.
Answer to Riddle 20 - Dig Half a Hole
What is
half a hole? It is impossible to dig half a hole. Either you have a hole, or
you don't have it. There is nothing like half a hole - of course unless its
measurements are given.
Answer
to Riddle 21 - Match the Noun
It is
only Goose. Why? The other nouns in List B can be pluralized by adding
"s" to them; while all the nouns in List A have to be
changed to a different word to make their plural, e.g. man to men, foot to
feet etc. In List B there is only one noun Goose which can be changed to a
different word.
Answer
to Riddle 22 - Truck problem
Not at
all. It would not collapse. Why? Because it has already driven half mile, so
subtract the gas already used from the total weight of the truck.
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