This was an assignment for science , of all classes. But, if anyone's as bored as I am, then you can amuse yourself with these riddles (it should take you all of two minutes, so this won't subside your boredom for long, let alone the two minutes during which you complete it ) ---------- A man builds a rectangular house. All sides have southern exposure. A bear walks by the window. What color is it? Why?
Two men play five games of checkers. They each win the same amount of games. There are no ties. Explain this.
A woman gives a beggar fifty cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. Explain this.
How many outs are in an inning?
Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
Divide nine by 2 to get 4. Explain how you can do this.
Do they have a fourth of July in Britain?
How many birthdays does the average American have?
How many months have 28 days?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
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A man builds a rectangular house. All sides have southern exposure. A bear walks by the window. What color is it? Why?
White. The house is built on the North Pole.
Two men play five games of checkers. They each win the same amount of games. There are no ties. Explain this.
They are playing other people.
A woman gives a beggar fifty cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. Explain this.
The begger is the woman's sister.
How many outs are in an inning?
6
Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
70
Divide nine by 2 to get 4. Explain how you can do this.
?
Do they have a fourth of July in Britain?
Yes. There is a fourth of July in every country.
How many birthdays does the average American have?
One - the date they were born.
How many months have 28 days?
All of them. Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
White They didn't play each other The beggar, shock horror, is female. ? 70 ? Yes. One... Trick question but I don't see the trick.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Well I'll answer the one question that wasn't:
Divide nine by 2 to get 4. Explain how you can do this.
There is only 1 significant figure in 2 and 9 so the answer can only have 1 significant figure (4).
Hobbes Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Wouldn't you round up?
*considers* No, because that would entail looking at a second sig fig. Okay.
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Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
When we learned sig figs we learned to round to whatever the next digit said to. Thus 179.8 with three sig figs is 180.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Hey Kat - it's not that you can't look at a second sig fig to round up. In fact you have to. So 4.9 in one s.f = 5 (as common sense suggests)
I was taught always to round to the nearest even number when the decimal was .5 - so that would give an answer of 4.
Of course, there might be some other smarty pants way to answer the question without using significant figures, and we're all wrong Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :
A man builds a rectangular house. All sides have southern exposure. A bear walks by the window. What color is it? Why?
I thought I saw polar in this sentence before I was done reading it. Stupid Limbic system.
Two men play five games of checkers. They each win the same amount of games. There are no ties. Explain this.
The fifth game is in progress?
A woman gives a beggar fifty cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. Explain this.
Is the woman a nun?
How many outs are in an inning?
3?
Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
70 (I know i got this one)
Divide nine by 2 to get 4. Explain how you can do this.
Rounding? Fuzzy Logic?
Do they have a fourth of July in Britain?
Yes, and a fifth and a sixth...
How many birthdays does the average American have?
5. Their own, King's, Washington's, Lincoln's, and Columbus'
How many months have 28 days? All 12 have at least that many. Whew, that was close.
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
Divide nine by 2 to get 4. Explain how you can do this.
Use Roman numerals? If you cut IX in half horizontally, you get IV.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
zan, I'll bet you're right.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
"A man builds a rectangular house. All sides have southern exposure. A bear walks by the window. What color is it? Why?"
Honey-hued. Santa got tired of replacing the reindeer, and MrsClaus allows only housebroken guests.
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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
"Two men play five games of checkers. They each win the same amount of games. There are no ties. Explain this."
Need for mental accuity. Wearing ties cuts off the blood flow to the brain.
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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
"A woman gives a beggar fifty cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. Explain this."
Woulda given more but she didn't have time to stop at the ATM.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
"How many outs are in an inning?"
Depends on how many wanna go back in the closet.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
"Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?"
42. Sheesh, I woulda thought everyone knew that by now.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
"Divide nine by 2 to get 4. Explain how you can do this."
I charge 1 for my labor.
"Divide nine by 2 to get 4. Explain how you can do this." ...cut IX in half horizontally, you get IV.
Remind me not to have you split 8 with me.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
"How many birthdays does the average American have?"
One or less, depends on who you ask. Some folks think Americans are conceived, not born.
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Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
I was going to mention something about leap day, then I realized that those people born on leap day still have one birthday, they just only celebrate it at the right time once every four years.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
A man builds a rectangular house. All sides have southern exposure. A bear walks by the window. What color is it? Why?
Purple. Man, if your like, so zone man that like, all the walls of your house face south, well, man, you got some goooood stuff, and like, I always see the purple bears when I get the gooood stuff. Whoa dude, there goes one now.
Two men play five games of checkers. They each win the same amount of games. There are no ties. Explain this. Each man, as usual, lies.
A woman gives a beggar fifty cents. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. Explain this. First explain to me why the sister only gives her desparate sibbling just 50 cents. She is a cheap #@$ %#$$%#@
How many outs are in an inning? To steal a better answer--and change it a bit--3 per side, and the home teams third baseman.
Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer? Duuuude. I don't have that many toes.
Divide nine by 2 to get 4. Explain how you can do this. Nine can be divided into to, Ni and Ne. Ni is ancient Welsch for Fore, as in "The Knights that say Ni." They were actually Scottish Knigits building the worlds first golf course--which is why they needed shrubbery. That is not the question. Saying Ni is Welsh for Fore, and then transliterate that into common english, we get the pun of Four.
NI is also the atomic symbol for Nickel, which would give us 5 cents, but we are looking for 4. It is, however in the 4th Period of the Periodic Table. (Ne, Neon, is in the 10th period, so that doesn't help us one pit.)
Do they have a fourth of July in Britain? No. well, it exists, but most everyone sleeps in, or goes around looking at US celbrities like Micheal Jackson, J-Lo, and the Osborns and cries, "Look what we've started. Wahhh"
How many birthdays does the average American have? I plan on about 3 Bday parties a week, but I like cake and icecream.
How many months have 28 days? 473 that I can attest to so far. Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
How many outs in an inning? 12.
3 Outs per team while batting. 3 outfielders per team when not batting.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
(dies laughing...)
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Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
quote: A man builds a rectangular house. All sides have southern exposure. A bear walks by the window. What color is it? Why?
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Posted by wieczorek (Member # 5565) on :
The first to get everything but the 9/2=4 problem is Katharina. The way to get 1/2 of 9 to equal 4 is in using roman numerals (zgator). Posted by Julie (Member # 5580) on :
quote: most everyone sleeps in, or goes around looking at US celbrities like Micheal Jackson
Who wants to look at Micheal Jackson? (and why does that look like it's spelled wrong?)
Posted by ae (Member # 3291) on :
It shouldn't be "divide nine by 2 to get 4". It should be "halve nine" or "divide nine into two".
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