What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?
They all read the same upside down.
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What force and strength can not get through,
I with a gentle touch can do,
and many in the streets would stand,
were I not as a friend in hand.
What am I?
A key.
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Solve the following:
1. A tune up
2. For rent
3. Looking high and low
4. Merry go round
5. Four square
6. Three little pigs
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How can you get 24 from using the numbers 3, 6, 9, and 11 using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division?
(6-3) x 11 – 9 = 24
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R T _ U I
This is a common sequence which you have probably made use of many times yourself with one letter missing. Can you fill in the missing letter?
The missing letter is Y. From a standard “QWERTY” keyboard.
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If you have a basket containing 5 apples, how can you divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Take 4 apples out of the basket and give one each to 4 kids, leave the last apple in the basket and hand the basket (still containing the apple) to the 5th kid.
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If you started spelling out numbers (ex. One, two, three…) how far would you have to go until you found the letter A?
Answer
One thousand.
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Forwards I am heavy. Backwards I am Not. What am I?
Ton.
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Mrs. Jones has 9 children and half of them are girls, how is this possible?
All of her children are girls.
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What has three feet but cannot walk?
A yardstick.