Math Riddles
Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. What’s the answer?
It’s 70. You’re dividing 30 by ½, not by two. Thirty divided by ½ is the same thing as multiplying it by two, which is 60. Plus 10 makes 70!
What time was the snack time for g5-7 this year?
10:50 to 11:10
A clerk at the butcher shop is six feet tall and wears size 10 shoes. What does he weigh?
Meat. He works at the butcher shop, so he weighs meat for a living.
It’s at the center of gravity and you can find it in Venus, but not Mars. What is it?
Letter V
Billy’s mother had five children. The first was named Lala, the second was named Lele, the third was named Lili, the fourth was named Lolo. What was the fifth child named?
Billy
Using only addition, how can you use eight eights to get the number 1,000?
888 +88 +8 +8 +8
How many campuses Wali had last year?
4
Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks?
Neither!
What goes on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening?
A human. The times of day represent stages of human life. At the beginning of life, a baby crawls on four “feet.” As a person gets older, they walk on two feet. Later in life, a person will walk on three “feet” (two feet, plus a cane to help them walk).
Choose the correct sentence: “the yolk of the egg is white” or “the yolk of the egg are white.
Neither. Egg yolks are yellow, not white!
When Ashley was 15, her mother was 37. Now, her mother is twice her age. How old is Ashley?
Ashley is 22. Her mother is 22 years older, so when Ashley is 22, she’s now half her mother’s age.
How many math classes you had per week?
10
You’re driving a city bus. At the first stop, three women get on. At the second stop, one woman gets off and a man gets on. At the third stop, two children get on. The bus is blue and it’s raining outside in December. What color is the bus driver’s hair?
Remember, you’re driving the bus!
Two boxers are in a match scheduled for 12 rounds. (Pure boxing only – no kicking, UFC takedowns, or anything else). One of the boxers gets knocked out after only six rounds, yet no man throws a punch. How is this possible?
The two boxers are women
It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes. What is it?
Breath
Your sock drawer only contains 18 white socks and 18 blue socks. How many times do you need to reach inside the drawer and take out a sock to guarantee a matching pair?
Three times. On the third time, you’ll get either a white or a blue sock to match with one of the other two you’ve already grabbed.
The colors of WALI logo are :
Yellow, Red and green
A man was walking in the rain in the middle of nowhere without a coat or an umbrella. He got soaked, but not a single hair on his head was wet. How can this be?
He was bald
A father and son have a car accident and both are very injured. They are taken to separate hospitals for treatment. When the boy is taken in for an operation, the surgeon says, “I can’t do this surgery…. this boy is my son!” How is this possible?
The surgeon is the boy’s mother
The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
Fog
You planted sunflower seeds in your back garden. Every day, the number of flowers doubles. If it takes 52 days for the flowers to fill the garden, how many days would it take for them to fill half the garden?
It would take 51 days. If the number of flowers doubles every day, half the garden would be full the day before, on the 51st day.
The last day of In campus classes this year was on:
Friday March 13th, 2020
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode back out on Friday. How is this possible?
The horse’s name was Friday.
What travels faster: heat or cold?
Heat travels faster, because you can catch a cold!
You can find it in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, but not in Venus or Neptune. What is it?
The letter “R”