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Emma came third in a dance competition for girls. 3 dancers came between her and the last girl.
How many dancers took part in the competition?
7 dancers
Maria has a total of 19 apples in 3 bags. She takes the same amount of apples from each bag.Then there are 3, 4 and 6 apples in the bags.
How many apples did Maria take from each bag?
2 apples
Three frogs live in a pond. Each night only one of the frogs sings a song. After 9 nights the first frog has sung 2 times. The second from has listened to 5 songs.
How many songs did the third frog listen to?
6 songs
The pink tower is taller than the red tower but shorter than the green tower. The silver tower is taller than the green tower.
Which tower is the tallest?
The silver tower
Which number must be in the box with the number 4?
Lizzy has 7 coins of a kind. She buys three fruits at the market. Each fruit has a different price.
How much is the most expensive fruit?
The most expensive fruit was 4 coins
213, 214, and 215 are three consecutive three-digit numbers. Mohammad writes three consecutive four-digit numbers in a row. His sister erases a few digits from each of the three numbers.
___7, _898, 48__
Which digits (from left to right) are missing?
The missing digits are 489, 4, 499
For every birthday Maria gets as many teddies as she is years old on that day. For her first birthday she got 1 teddy. For her second birthday she got 2 teddies and so on.
How many teddies in total has Maria got on the day after her sixth birthday?
21 teddies
Denise fired a silver and a gold rocket at the same time. The rockers exploded into 20 stars in total. The gold rocked exploded into 6 more stars that the silver one.
How many stars did the gold rocket explode into?
The gold rocket exploded into 13 stars
Yesterday it was Sunday.
Which day will it be tomrrow?
Tuesday
Penguin Peter goes fishing every day and brings 9 fish for his two children. Every day he gives 5 fish to the first child he sees. The other child then gets 4 fish. In the last few days, a child has had a total of 26 fish.
How many fish did the other child get?
The other child got 28 fish
In a queue in front of a ferry there are 8 cars with 19 people in total. There are either 2 or 3 people in each car.
How many cars are there with exactly 2 people?
There are 5 cars with exactly 2 people
In a classroom the children sit in rows. In each row there are the same amount of children. In Robert's row there are 2 children to the left of him and 3 children to the right of him. In front of Rober there are 2 rows, behind him just one.
How many children in total are in this class?
There are 24 children in this class
In an ice cream shop there is some money in a drawer. After 6 ice creams were sold, there were 70 euros left in the drawer. After a total of 16 ice creams were sold, there were 120 euros left in the drawer.
How many euros were there in the drawer at the start?
There were 40 euros in the drawer at the start
Sara has 16 blue marbles. She can swap her marbles in the following way:
For 3 blue marbles she gets 1 red marble.
For 2 red marbles she gets 5 green marbles.
What is the maximum number of green marbles she can get?
The maximum number of green marbles that Sara can get is 10
60 children stand in a row. Each child has a high-visibility vest and a backpack. The colors of their high-visibility vests always alternate: yellow, green, yellow, green, ... The colors of their backpack make the following pattern: red, brown, purple, red, brown, purple, ...
How many children have a yellow safety vest and a purple backpack?
10 children
Three boys enter a room one after the other. Hermann is not the first. Felix is not the second. Clemens is not the third.
How many different orders are there for the boys to enter the room?
There are 2 different orders for the boys to enter the room
Three football teams are taking part in a tournament. Each team plays each other team once. For a win the team scores 3 points, the other team 0 points. For a draw both teams get 1 point each.
Which number of points is impossible for any team to reach at the end of this tournament?
It is impossible for any team to score 5 points
Five girls eat plums. Laura eats 2 plums more than Sophie. Bettina eats 3 plums less than Laura. Clara eats one plum more than Bettina and 3 less than Alice.
Which two of the girls eat the same amount of plums?
Clara and Sophie eat the same amount of plums
A box has fewer than 50 cookies in it. The cookies can be divided evenly between 2, 3, or 4 children. However, they cannot be divided evenly between 7 children because 6 more cookies would be needed.
How many cookies are there in the box?
There are 36 cookies in the box
The rooms in a hotel are numbered in ascending order (No. 1, 2, 3, ...). No number is left out. Beaver Benji counts the digits of all the room numbers and finds the digit '2' 14 times and the digit '5' 3 times.
What is the biggest possible room number in this hotel?
The biggest possible room number is 34
Daniel wants to cut a rope into 12 equal pieces and marks the places where he has to cut. Mohammed wants to cut the same rope into 16 equal pieces and marks the cuts as well. Maya finally cuts the rope at all the marked spots.
How many pieces does Maya get?
Maya will get 24 pieces
Maria, Peter, Richard and Tina play football in the classroom. While doing so a window pane broke. When the head mistress wanted to find out who broke the window pane she got the following answers:
Maria: It was Peter
Peter: It was Richard
Richard: It wasn't me
Tina: It wasn't me
Later it became clear that only one child spoke the truth.
Who broke the window pane?
Tina broke the window pane
Robert and Sonja play a game with the following rules: taking it in turn they can take 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 cards from the pile on each move. Whoever takes the last card has lost. At the moment there are 10 cards on the pile and it is Robert's turn.
How many cards should he leave for Sonja so that he can be certain to win?
He should leave Sonja 7 cards
Ann, Bob, Carina, Dan, and Ed are sitting at a round table. Ann is not next to Bob, Dan is next to Ed, and Bob is not next to Dan.
Which two people are sitting next to Carina?
Ann and Bob