A peasant is convicted in China. He gets the death penalty. The judge allows him to say a last sentence in order to determine the way the penalty will be carried out. If the peasant lies, he will be hanged. If he speaks the truth he will be beheaded. The peasant speaks a last sentence and everybody surprise some minutes later he is get free because the judge cannot determine his penalty. What did the peasant said?
It's always 1 to 6
it's always 15 to 20
it's always 5
but it's never 21
and if 21, it's flying.
In this sentences. There is ... The numbers of 0. And ... The numbers of 1. And ... The numbers of 2. And ... The numbers of 3. And ... The numbers of 4. And ... The numbers of 5. And ... The numbers of 6. And ... The numbers of 7. And ... The numbers of 8. And ... The numbers of 9.
A train leaves Los Angels for New York every hour on the hour. A train leaves New York for Los Angels every hour on the half hour. The trip takes five hours each way.
As you ride from Los Angels to New York, how many of the trains bound from New York to Los Angels would you pass?
Simpkins and Green made arrangements to meet at the railroad station to catch the eight o'clock train to Philadelphia. Simpkins thinks that his watch is twenty five minutes fast although it is in fact ten minutes slow. Green thinks his watch is ten minutes slow, while it actually has gained five minutes.
What will happen if both men, relying upon their watches, try to arrive at the station five minutes before train time.
When Mr.Watson built his home, he made one wall of the living room entirely out of thick plate glass. He soon realized how expensive as well as inconvenient it was to live in a "glass fishbowl", for the glass had to be washed on the average of once a week. It was too big a job for him, since the wall measured nineteen by twenty feet, so he contracted with a window cleaning service to do the full job once a week at the cost of one dollar per hundred square feet of surface washed, what was Watson weekly bill?
An apothecary found six flasks capable of holding sixteen, eighteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, and thirty-four fluid ounces respectively. He filled some with distilled water and then filled all but one of the rest with alcohol, nothing that he had used twice as much alcohol as water.
Which flask was left over? And which flasks were used for distilled water, which for alcohol?
It was a day of special joy for Mrs. Greenhouse. She was exhibiting her collection of rare flowering plants to members of her garden club.
"Now these are my real treasures," she said in her best lecture voice, pointing to three luxuriously flowering specimens. "I got them from Guatemala only a year ago, and I have been giving them my closest attention. They are all quite delicate indeed. Since the flowers last only a single day. The plant with crimson flowers blossoms every fourth day, but I have to wait until the seventh day for the plant with lavender flowers. But that one is the most precious of all," she said, directing attention to her third plant."It takes a full thirteen days for it to blossom."
Since her three tropical flowering plants were such an enormous attraction, Mrs. Greenhouse expansively invited the club members to return to see them again."Let's make it next year on this very same day," she announced, "since they will all be in blossom them."
Was Mrs. Greenhouse correct in her horticultural reckoning?
If a hundred chickens eat a hundred bushels of grain in a hundred days, how many bushels will ten chickens eat in ten days?
And if, on the average, one and a half of these chickens lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many days will it take a chicken to lay one and a half dozen eggs.
1. Arrange the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in succession using each one only once and, with the aid of plus and minus signs as desired, produce a sum of 100.
2. Add zero to the nine digits above and rearrange them in fraction form to produce a sum of 1.
At a factory fire a fireman stood on the middle rung of a ladder, directing water into the burning building. As the smoke diminished, he stepped up three rung and continued his work from that position. A sudden flare-up of flames forced him to descend five rung. A few minutes later he climbed up seven rungs and worked there until the fire was out. Then he climbed the seven remaining rungs and entered the factory. How many rungs were in the ladder?
Read More......Mr. Sandys took a great deal of satisfaction from the fact that his summer cottage was comparatively close to his office in the city. One friday afternoon he got an early start and was able to make trip to the cottage at an average speed of sixty miles an hour. But he overslept on Monday morning and by the time he got on his way to the city the traffic was so heavy that he averaged only thirty miles an hour. By the time he reached his office, Mr. Sandys was weary and much less satisfied with the convenience of his week-end retreat.
What was his average speed for the round trip?
Three travelers meet. They sit down to eat. One traveler produces three loaves of bread, the second traveler produces four loaves. After the seven loaves are divided equally and eaten, the third traveler produces seven dimes and says, "Please divide there dimes equitably between the two of you."How much money should each of the first two travelers receive?
If it take 3 3/4 minutes to boil one egg, how long does it take to boil six eggs?
The bookworm is a staple character in puzzle literature. Ours, finding himself in a library in which the sets of books were placed in the usual sequence, decided to sample some Shakespeare from a two-volume edition on a bottom shelf. Begining with the foreword of volume 1 and boring through in a straight line to the last page of volume 2, the bookworm made his way at the rate of one inch every four days. He each cover is an eighth of an inch thick, and if each volume measure three inches in thickness, how long will it take the erudite bookworm to digest his way through Shakespeare?
Young Smitherly, who was about to graduate at the head of his class at Upcoming University, was in the pleasant position of having his choice of two very attractive offers both at $5000 a year. Unable to make up his mind between them immediately, he wrote the two companies and asked what his chances were for raises over the next five years.
Company A replied to the effect that it would guarantee a raise of $300 every six month for the next five years. Company B said it would guarantee a raise of $1200 every twelve months for the next five years.
To the astonishment of his father, Smitherly accepted Company A's offer. Why?
On the final day of his close-out sale, a merchant hastily disposed of two lamps at the bargain price of twelve dollars apiece. He estimated that he must have made some profit on the combined transactions since he made a 25 per cent profit on one and only took a 20 per cent loss on the other. Was he correct in his quick estimate?
A group of snails had been living happily for many years at the bottom of a twenty foot well when it suddenly ran dry. Most of the snails lay down to did, but one industrious fellow decided to in elsewhere. The next dawn he began to climb to the top of the well at the prodigious rate of three inches per hour for each of the twelve daylight hours. Each night, however, he slipped back at the rate of two inches per hour. How long did it take this enterprising snail to escape from the well?
