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1. There are 100 fourth graders. Five out of ten fourth graders own a nintendo. How many fifth graders own a nintendo?
2. If a rooster layed an egg on a roof. Which side would it fall off of the right or left side?
3. If a plane crashed on the border between Canada and America and there were half Canadians and half Americans on the plane. Where would they bury the survivors?
4. How many halves go into 30?
5. Brandon lived in a one-story house with his family. One day his three friends Alex, Danny, and Jamie came over to ask if he wanted to go skating. So Danny went inside and ran upstairs to his bedroom to get his skates. What's wrong with this story?
6. Teacher: Our nose was made to smell with and our feet were made to run.
Ben: I must be made all wrong then because my nose ________
and my feet __________.
Can you think of the missing words?
7. "The father of this person," said the man as he pointed to a photograph in his hand, "is my father's son, yet I have no brother's and no sons." How could this be?
8. Someone gives you a coin. You flip it 50 times and each time it comes up heads. If you flip it once more, which is most likely, heads or tails?
9. If someone gave you a penny and said she would double your money every day, how long do you think it would take for you to become a millionaire?
10. It takes six men six days to dig six holes. How long does it take one man to dig half a hole?
Answers: 1. No one knows how many fifth graders own a nintendo. You only have info on fourth graders. 2. Roosters don't lay eggs. 3. You don't bury the survivors. 4. 60 5. If you live in a one-story house then your bedroom can't be upstairs. 6. runs, smell 7. The man is the father of the person in the photograph-his daughter! 8. Heads most likely, it's probably a coin with heads on both sides. 9. Twenty-seven days,or less than one month. 10. You can't dig half a hole. A hole is a hole is a hole. |
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