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Multiply this number with any other number and you will always get the same answer. What’s the number?
Zero
What is the maximum number of times you can subtract five from 25?
The answer is once. This is because when you subtract five from 25 it becomes 20. So, from here on, you are no longer subtracting from 25.
Multiply this number with any other number and you will always get the same answer. What’s the number?
7 because a hexagon has 6 sides
Which weighs more, 16 ounces of feathers or a pound of solid gold?
They weigh the same 16oz =1 pound
What is the maximum number of times you can subtract five from 25?
The answer is once. This is because when you subtract five from 25 it becomes 20. So, from here on, you are no longer subtracting from 25.
What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
The answer is short. When you add the letters e and r, the word becomes “shorter.”
Can you create a true math equation using only the numbers 2, 3, 4, and 5 and the symbols + and =?
The answer is 2+5 = 3+4. Both 2+5 and 3+4 equal 7.
This shape looks like a door and a chocolate bar. It has four sides with two sets of equal opposites. What is the shape?
It's a rectangle. It has two sets of equal opposite sides
A farmer has 23 sheep in his field. One day, a massive storm hits and all but eight of his sheep ran away. How many sheep does he have left?
Eight because the rest of them ran away
Solve this pattern equation. If:
2+2 = 44
3+3 = 96
4+4 = 168
5+5 = 2510
Then what is 6+6?
The answer is 3612. The answer is the number multiplied by itself (6×6=36) combined with the number added to itself (6+6=12).
What can you put between a 6 and a 7 to make the result greater than a 6 but less than a 7?
The answer is a decimal. 6.7 is greater than 6 but less than 7.
I am as light as a feather but even the world’s strongest man can’t hold me for more than 5 minutes. What am I?
The answer is breath. No one can hold their breath for longer than a few minutes, not even the strongest person in the world!!
The butcher is 5ft 11 inches tall and he has size 9 feet. What does he weigh?
The answer is meat because he works in a butcher shop. So, he weighs meat for a living.
How do you write 23 by only using the number 2?
The answer is 22+(2➗2) = 23. This may look like a complex problem but remember, in math, we always start by answering the equation in the brackets. So, 2➗2 = 1. Now we can finish the equation:
22+1 = 23
Mrs. Howell died at a very old age. But she only had 26 birthdays. How is this possible?
The answer is that she was born on February 29th in a leap year. This only happens every four years.
I am a three-digit number. My first digit is three less than my second digit. My second digit is four times greater than my third digit. What number am I? (bonus if you can find two answers!)
There are two possible answers: 141 and 582. For 141, the number 1 is 3 less than 4, and the number 4 is four times greater than the number 1. For 582, 5 is 4 less than 8 and 8 is four times greater than 2.
You are a bus driver on your daily route. At the first stop, five people get on and no one gets off. You drive eight miles until you get to the second stop where four people get on and three get off. After another ten miles, you reach the third stop where six people get on and five get off. What color are the bus driver’s eyes?
Whatever color your eyes are! You're the bus driver!
I appear twice in the morning and twice in the evening. But I only appear once at night. What am I?
The answer is the letter N.
Divide 30 by ½ and then add 5, what’s the answer?
The answer is 65. When you divide by a fraction it actually turns into a multiplication. So you need to multiply 30 by 2, which gives you 60. Then, add 5 and you end up with 65.
Mr. Bower has four daughters and each of those daughters has one brother. How many children does Mr. Bower have?
The answer is five children. The daughters all have the same brother
Amy planted sunflower seeds in her back garden. Every day, the number of flowers doubles. If it takes 56 days for the flowers to fill the whole garden, how long would it take for the flowers to fill half the garden?
The answer is 55. If the number of flowers doubles every day, then half of the garden filled on the 55th day would result in the whole garden filled with flowers the next day because ½ + ½ = 1 whole.
A farmer explains the animals he keeps on his farm to a neighbor. He says “I only keep sheep, goats, and horses. At the minute, I have all sheep except three, all goats bar four, and all horses bar five.”. How many does he have of each animal?
The answer is three sheep, two goats, and one horse. He says that he has all sheep except three. So, we know that these three animals must be goats and horses. He also says that he has all goats bar four and all horses bar five.
goats + horses = 3
horses + sheep = 4
sheep + goats = 5
Mr. Blue lives in the blue house. Mrs. Pink lives in the pink house and Mr. Purple lives in the purple house. So, who lives in the white house?
The President
Aidan works at an aquarium. When he tries to put each turtle into a separate tank, he has one turtle too many. When he tries to put two turtles into each tank, he has one tank too many. How many turtles and tanks does Aidan have?
The answer is four turtles and three tanks. One turtle in each tank would result in an additional turtle with no tank. Two turtles in each tank would leave the third tank spare.
There is a clothing store where the owner has come up with his own method of pricing his items. A tie costs $15, a shirt costs $25, a skirt costs $25, and trousers costs $40. Using this method, how much would a coat cost?
The answer is $20. The method is adding $5 for each letter in the name of the item. The word coat has four letters which means the equation would be 4×5=20.