A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Tip: When a brain teaser seems simple there is usually some sort of trick. The answer is probably not the first thing you think of. Scroll down to see the answer when you are ready. Answer: 5 cents Many will reply with an answer of 10, which is incorrect. Let us explain… If the bat costs $1.00 more than the ball and the total is $1.10, then the ball must cost 5 cents and the bat must cost $1.05. If the ball were to cost ten cents then both together would cost $1.20. Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
Scroll down to see the answer when you are ready. Answer: Nine. Two parents, six sons, and one daughter. All of them have one sister (not six sisters). The number 8,549,176,320 is a unique number. What is so special about it?
Scroll down to see the answer when you are ready. Answer: This is the only number that includes all the digits arranged in alphabetical order. A man wanted to encrypt his password but he needed to do it in a way so that he could remember it. He had to use seven characters consisting of letters and numbers only (no symbols like ! or <). In order to remember it, he wrote down “You force heaven to be empty.” What is his password?
Scroll down to see the answer when you are ready. Answer: Try to pronounce the sentence like these characters: u472bmt. What has a mouth, but cannot eat; moves, but has no legs; and has a bank, but cannot put money in it?
Scroll down to see the answer when you are ready. Answer: a river I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
Scroll down to see the answer when you are ready. Answer: The letter S A boy is walking down the road with a doctor. While the boy is the doctor’s son, the doctor is not the boy’s father. Then who is the doctor?
Scroll down to see the answer when you are ready. Answer: The doctor is the boy’s mother. Guess the next three letters in the series GTNTL.
Scroll down to see the answer when you are ready. Answer: I, T, S. The complete sequence is the first letter of every word in the sentence. |
AuthorMs. Naylor teaches English and Journalism at AHS Archives
June 2022
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