Nails and Feathers
Nails and Feathers
If you have a pound of nails and a pound of feathers which one weighs more?
If you have a pound of nails and a pound of feathers which one weighs more?
If you want to measure out exactly one pint of water, and you have only a three pint jug and a five pint jug. How would you do it?
A singer has twice as mant pants as pairs of shoes in her wardrobe and three-halves as many t-shirts as pants. What is the least number of items she can have in her wardrobe in order to make a different shoes, pants, and T-shirt combinations for each day of the year. (Hint: Try using a tree diagram) Show All work.
Four members of a band are walking to a night concert. They decide to take a shortcut, but must cross a bridge. Luckily they have one flashlight.
Because of the varying size of their instruments, it takes each member a different amount of time to cross the bridge – it takes the first person one minute, the second person two minutes, the third person five minutes and the fourth person ten minutes.
They must cross the bridge in pairs, travelling at the slower speed so if the one minute person went with the ten minute person, it would take a total of ten minutes.
Since there is only one flashlight, one person must come back across the bridge, then another pair can cross.
They only have 17 minutes to cross the bridge and still get to the concert on time. What order should they cross to get everyone across and get to the concert?
There is a mixture of purple, orange, and yellow crayons in a crayon box. The total number of crayons is 60, there are four times as many orange crayons as yellow crayons. There are also 6 more purple crayons than orange crayons. How many crayons of each color are there?
The ages of a father and son add up to 66. The father’s age is the son’s age reversed.
How old could they be? (3 possible solutions).
How can you make 100 using the numbers 1 to 9 only once each?
you have 7 crackers on the table and you take away three of them. How many crackers do you now have?
Two fathers and two sons just closed a great deal and to celebrate, they go to the cigare store to buy some fine cuban cigars. However the store only has three cigars in stock, and yet they all leave with a cigare. How is this possible?
Two trains 200 miles apart are moving toward each other; each one is going at a speed of 50 miles per hour. A fly starting on the front end of one of them flies back and forth between them at a rate of 75 miles an hour. It does this until the trains collide and crush the fly to death. What is the total distance the fly has flown?
you have three american coins and one of them is not a fifty cent pice, what are the coins?
A certain town is served by two hospitals. In the larger hospital, about 45 babies are born each day. In the smaller one, about 15 babies are born each day. Although the overall proportion of girls is about 50%, the actual proportion at either hospital may be greater or less on any day. At the end of a year, which hospital will have the greater number of days on which more than 60% of the babies born were girls?