Tag: math & puzzles

4,10,18,28,?

My grandson is about as many days as my son is weeks, and my grandson is as many months as I am in years. My grandson, my son and I together are 120 years. Can you tell me my age in years?

It was Emily's first day at school. The teacher suggested that it would be a good idea for each child to meet every other child in the class. The teacher said, "When you meet, please shake hands and introduce yourself by name." If there were 10 children in the class, how many were the total handshakes?

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. Can this statement be true?

Paul designs food displays for the local Supermarket. For one of his displays, he wants to set up soup cans in the form of a square pyramid. He's decided to use 10 cans for each side of the square base of the pyramid. If each carton holds 25 soup cans, how many cartons will Paul need to open to build the pyramid?

A firefighter stood on the middle rung of a ladder, spraying water on a burning house. He then climbed up 6 rungs before the heat of the flames caused him to come down 10 rungs. After some minutes he was able to climb 18 rungs to the very top of the ladder. How many rungs did the ladder have?

All prime number's can be written in the form of

Arrangement of leaves around the stem can be well expressed by which of the following well known numbers?

Take my ____________ . No one who has used my _________ has ever had cause for regret.

I didn't brought my books yesterday.