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100

What is lighter 1 kg of feathers or 1 kg of rocks? 

Same weight

100

Using only addition, add eight 8s to get the number 1,000.

888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000

100

Find the missing number

191

100

What is the longest side of the right-angle triangle called? 

Hypothenuse

100

If 1=3

2=3

3=5

4=4

5=4

Then, 6=?

3

200

A hexagon has how many sides? 

6

200

What is the smallest whole number that is equal to seven times the sum of its digits?

21

200

What is the largest number between 1 and a million that doesn't contain the letter "n"?

88

200

Which number is spelt with letters in descending order? 

One

200

What is the number of parking space covered by the car? 

87

300

If a shopping cart contains one apple, two bananas, three oranges, and four hot dogs, what percent of the cart's total contents is fruit? 

60%

300

You know 2 + 2 comes to the same as 2 x 2. Now find a set of three different whole numbers whose sum is equal to their total when multiplied.

1, 2, and 3

300

Rishab asked his Grandfather how old he was. Rather than giving him a straight answer, he replied: "I have 6 children, and there are 4 years between each one and the next. I had my first child (your Uncle Ravi) when I was 29. Now the youngest one (your Auntie Ramita) is 29 herself. That's all I'm telling you!" How old is Rishab's grandfather?

78

300

What is the only Arabic number that does not have a Roman numeral? 

0

300

I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I? 

Seven

400

6 ÷ 2(1 + 2) = 

9

400

One brother says of his younger brother: “Two years ago, I was three times as old as my brother was. In three years time, I will be twice as old as my brother.” How old are they each now?

Older brother is 17 and younger is 7

400

The height of a certain flagpole is 33 feet. Grease is applied to the pole. A monkey attempts to climb the pole. It climbs 5 feet every second but slips down 4 ft in the next second. When will the monkey reach the top of the flagpole?

57 seconds

400

What is the first number starting from 0, 1, 2, ... that contains a letter "a"? 

1000

400

There is a basket containing 5 apples, how do you divide the apples among 5 children so that each child has 1 apple while 1 apple remains in the basket? 

4 children get 1 apple each while the fifth child gets the basket with the remaining apple still in it

500

A farmer notices that every day for the past 10 days, the number of pigeons in his field has doubled. There are 1024 pigeons in the field today, and there were two pigeons there the first day. How many pigeons were there yesterday? 

512

500

I add six to eleven, and get five. Why is this correct?

When it is 11 a.m., adding six hours makes it 5 p.m.

500

Mr. Sahil runs the hit bullseye Bank. You have to help him, though, because he has forgotten the combination number of the safe of the bank. Fortunately, he does remember some things about the number which may help you to help him.

  • The number has four digits (eg.1234 or 9876).
  • All the digits are different.
  • It begins and ends with an odd number and has two even numbers in the middle.
  • 19 and 519 divide it exactly.

What is the number which will open the safe? 

9861

500

What is the smallest number that is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10? 

2520

500

Two girls were born to the same mother, at the same time, on the same day, in the same month and the same year and yet somehow they're not twins. Why not? 

Because there was a third girl, which makes them triplets

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