Part 1
X is an odd number. Take an alphabet away from X and it becomes even. Which is that number?
What is Seven (Seven-S=Even)?
A grandmother, two mothers, and two daughters went to a baseball game together and bought one ticket each. How many tickets did they buy in total?
What is 3 tickets (the grandmother is also a mother and the mother is also a daughter)?
When Miguel was 6 years old, his little sister, Leila, was half is age. If Miguel is 40 years old today, how old is Leila?
What is she is 37 years old?
What can you put between a 7 and an 8 so that the result is greater than a seven, but less than an eight?
What is a decimal? 7.8 is greater than 7, but less than 8,
What did the triangle say to the circle?
What is you’re pointless?
If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is this?
What is zero?
In an odd little town, there was an odd little stream, with odd little fish in an odd little team. A stranger approached a local fisherman, And asked him how much his odd little fish weighed. The odd little man replied: All the fish in this stream weigh exactly 1/2 of a pound plus 1/2 of a fish. Isn’t that odd? How many pounds does an odd little fish weigh?
What is one?
I add five to nine, and get two. The answer is correct, but how?
What is when it is 9am, add 5 hours to it and you will get 2pm?
You are given 3 positive numbers. You can add these numbers and multiply them together. The result you get will be the same. Which are the numbers?
What is 1,2 and 3?
If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
What is 9?
How many sides does a circle have?
What is Two? The inside and the outside.
How did the soccer fan know before the game that the score would be 0-0?
What is the score is always 0-0 before the game?
Place three matches on a table. Tell a friend to add two more matches to make eight. How?
What is add two matches to make a roman numeral eight?
Eggs are $0.12 a dozen. How many eggs can you get for a dollar?
What is 100 eggs, at one penny each?
I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is six more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
What is 193?
Leon works at the aquarium. When he tries to put each turtle in its own tank, he has one turtle too many. But if he puts two turtles per tank, he has one tank too many. How many turtles and how many tanks does Leon have?
What is he has 3 tanks and 4 turtles?
A man is twice as old as his little sister. He is also half as old as their dad. Over a period of 50 years, the age of the sister will become half of their dad’s age. What is the age of the man now?
What is he is 50 years old?
What did one math book say to the other math book?
What is do you want to hear my problems?
Tom was asked to paint the number of plates on 100 apartments which means he will have to paint numbers 1 through 100. Can you figure out the number of times he will have to paint the number 8?
What is 20 times? (8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 98)
At the time of shipping, Tom can place 10 small boxes or 8 large boxes into a carton. A total of 96 boxes were sent in one shipment. The number of small boxes was less than large boxes. What is the total number of cartons he shipped?
What is 11 cartons?
4 small boxes (410 = 40 boxes) 7 large boxes (78 = 56 boxes)
So 96 boxes and 11 total cartons
A 300 ft. train is traveling 300 ft. per minute must travel through a 300 ft. long tunnel. How long will it take the train to travel through the tunnel?
What is two minutes? It takes the front of the train one minute and the rest of the train will take two minutes to clear the tunnel.
Using only addition, how can you add eight 8’s to get the number 1,000?
What is 888 +88 +8 +8 +8 =1,000?
A group of students were standing in the blazing sun facing due west on a march past event. The leader shouted at them: Right turn! About turn! Left turn! At the end of these commands, in which direction is the students facing now?
What is East? They will turn 90 degrees in a right turn, and they turn 180 degrees in an about-turn, and finally they turn 90 degrees in a left turn. Therefore, the students are now facing east.
What is the difference between a dollar and a half and thirty five-cents?
What is nothing?
I am a three-digit number. My second digit is 4 times bigger than the third digit. My first digit is 3 less than my second digit. Who am I?
What is 141?
There is a clothing store in Bartlesville. The owner has devised his own method of pricing items. A vest costs $20, socks cost $25, a tie costs $15 and a blouse costs $30. Using the method, how much would a pair of underwear cost?
What is $45? The pricing method consists of charging $5 for each letter required to spell the item.
How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?
What is F I V E?
Remove the 2 letters F and E from five and you have IV.
There are 100 pairs of dogs in a zoo. Two pairs of babies are born for every dog. Unfortunately, 23 of the dogs have not survived. How many dogs would be left in total?
What is 977 dogs (100 x 2 = 200; 200 + 800 = 1000; 1000 – 23 = 977)?
What is the maximum possible number of times you can subtract number 5 from number 25?
What is only once? This is because when you subtract 5 from 25 for the first time, it becomes number 20, then 15 and so on.
If seven people meet each other and each shakes hands only once with each of the others, how many handshakes will there have been?
What is 21?