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Random Math Questions

The document presents a series of logical puzzles and riddles that challenge the reader's problem-solving skills. It includes questions about distributing sugar, pricing at a hardware store, weight calculations of a dog and cat, the effects of tie color on chemical reactions, a sailor's math, identical brothers, drawing lines through dots, and a historical figure's age. Each question requires critical thinking and creative reasoning to arrive at the correct answers.

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Random Math Questions

The document presents a series of logical puzzles and riddles that challenge the reader's problem-solving skills. It includes questions about distributing sugar, pricing at a hardware store, weight calculations of a dog and cat, the effects of tie color on chemical reactions, a sailor's math, identical brothers, drawing lines through dots, and a historical figure's age. Each question requires critical thinking and creative reasoning to arrive at the correct answers.

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1.

Can you place ten lumps of sugar in three empty cups so that there is an odd number of
lumps in each cup?

2. At the local hardware store, Jones learned that 1 would cost him 50 cents, 12 would cost
$1.00, and the price of 144 was $1.50. What was Jones buying?

3. A dog and a cat together weigh 27 pounds. If the dog’s weight is an odd number, and if he
weighs twice as much as she does, how much does each weigh?

4. After a series of experiments, a chemist discovered that it took 80 minutes for a certain
chemical reaction to take place whenever he was wearing a green necktie and the same
reaction always took an hour and twenty minutes when he wore a purple tie. Can you think
of why this might be so?

5. When the young man paid the cashier for his breakfast, she noticed that he had drawn a
triangle on the back of the check. Underneath the triangle he had written $13 × 2 = $26.

The cashier smiled. "I see you are a sailor," she said. How did the cashier know that he was a
sailor?

6. You meet two brothers and are astonished to see that they looked exactly alike.
“Yes, we’re brothers,” one of then explained. “We were born on the same day in the same
year, and we have the same parents.”
“But we’re not twins,” said the other.
Can you explain the situation?

7. Can you draw four straight lines, without taking the pencil point off the paper, that will
pass through all nine dots below?

8. Can you draw two straight lines, without taking the pencil from the paper, that will pass
through all six baseballs in the drawing below?

9. Laryngitis, a Greek orator, was born on July 4, 30 B.C. He dies on July 4, 30 A.D. How old
was he when he died?

10. Circle six digits here that will add to 21.


999
555
333
111

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