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Posted on December 7th 2011 with No Comments and 1,014 views

Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs. Each person had an egg. How is this possible?


Posted on December 6th 2011 with No Comments and 1,163 views

How can you add eight 8′s to get the number 1,000?


Posted on November 29th 2011 with No Comments and 1,564 views

When asked how old she was, Suzie replied, “In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago.”
How old is Suzie?


Posted on November 10th 2011 with No Comments and 941 views

You are on a ship, over the side hangs a rope ladder with half meter rungs. The tide rises a half meter per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that nine rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?


Posted on November 7th 2011 with No Comments and 1,604 views

A tree doubled in height each year until it reaches its maximum height over the course of ten years.
How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?


Posted on November 6th 2011 with No Comments and 1,899 views

If you go to the movies and you are paying, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice or two friends to the movies at the same time?


Posted on November 4th 2011 with No Comments and 1,586 views

If someone says to you, “I’ll bet you $1 that if you give $2, I will give you $3 in return”, would this be a good be for you to accept?


Posted on October 4th 2011 with No Comments and 2,041 views

After teaching his class all about roman numerals (X = 10, IX=9 and so on) the teacher asked his class to draw a single continuous line and turn IX into 6. The only stipulation the teacher made was that the pen could not be lifted from the paper until the line was complete. Pittsburgh web design


Posted on September 12th 2011 with No Comments and 2,211 views

Why was six afraid of seven?
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Posted on August 27th 2011 with No Comments and 2,891 views

If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?
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