Brain Teaser 2/12/2014

1. Every student in a second grade class sends a valentine to each of the other students in the class, for a total of 306 valentines. How many students are in the class?

2. If 1 red valentine equals 3 purple valentines, and 1 purple valentine equals 4 white valentines, how many red valentines are in 24 white valentines?
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Brain Teaser 2/11/2014

I have one, you have one.
If you remove the first letter, a bit remains.
If you remove the second, bit still remains.
After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it remains.
It dies hard!
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Brain Teaser 2/10/2014

1. A grandfather clock chimes the appropriate number of times to indicate the hour, as well as chiming once at each quarter hour. If you were in another room and heard the clock chime just once, what would be the longest period of time you would have to wait in order to be certain of the correct time?

2. Gary began peeling a pile of 44 potatoes at the rate of 3 per minute. Four minutes later, Christen joined him, and peeled at the rate of 5 potatoes per minute. When they were finished, how many potatoes had each peeled?
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Brain Teaser 2/9/2014

1. A word I know, Six letters it contains, Subtract just one, And twelve is what remains.

2. Most of us use it every day in our homes. If we purchased 100 pounds of it, it would contain approximately 87 pounds of water; 4 pounds of fat; 4 pounds of casein, ash and albumin; and 5 pounds of sugar. What is it?

3. Is the number of people in the world who have shaken hands with an odd number of people odd or even?
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Brain Teaser 2/8/2014

Which of the following sentences given below means approximately the same as the proverb: "Don't count your chickens until they are hatched?"

1."Some eggs have double yolks, so you can't really count eggs and chickens."
2."You can't walk around the henhouse to count the eggs because it will disturb the hens and they won't lay eggs"
3."It is not really sensible to rely on something that has not yet happened and may not ever happen"
4."Since eggs break so easily, you may not be accurate in your count of future chickens."
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Brain Teaser 2/7/2014

How many four sided shapes are in this diagram?


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Brain Teaser 2/6/2014

1. A certain family party consisted of 1 grandfather, 1 grandmother, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 children, 3 grandchildren, 1 brother, 2 sisters, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 father-in-law, 1 mother-in-law and 1 daughter-in-law. This may appear to add up to 23 people but was in fact only 7.
Who all was the party?

2. A man went into a bank with exactly $1,000 in silver dollars. He gave them to a cashier and asked the cashier to put the money into 10 bags is such a way that if he later needed any amount of dollars up to $1,000, he could lay his hands on that amount without needing to open any of the bags. How did the cashier achieve this?
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