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Last Problem:
Tania has the same number of sisters as she has brothers. Her brother Ken has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many boys and how many girls are in this family?
Answer:
There are 4 girls and 3 boys.
Today’s Problem:
Mr. Rodgers began each day with a lightly boiled egg and a slice of toast – yet he never borrowed nor bought an egg, and he did not steal eggs or keep a chicken. How can this be?
Yesterday’s Problem:
How many odd pages are in a book that is 237 pages long?
Answer:
119. Take 1/2 of 237 which is 118.5 – there is one more odd page than even page – so odd is 119, even is 118
Today’s Problem:
Tania has the same number of sisters as she has brothers. Her brother Ken has twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many boys and how many girls are in this family?
Last Problem:
How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer:
11 – count up the letters in “the alphabet” – 3 plus 8 equals 11
Today’s Problem:
How many odd pages are in a book that is 237 pages long?
Last Problem:
How can 1/2 of 11 be 6?
Answer:
In Roman numerals, 11 is written as XI, so if you cut it in half horizontally through the middle, you get VI and in anverted VI – keep the VI half and VI in roman numerals is how to write a 6
Today’s Problem:
How many letters are in the alphabet?
Yesterday’s Problem:
What is the next symbol in this series? $ % ^ & * ?
Answer:
“(” These are the symbols above the numbers on the keyboard – the ‘(‘ is above the ‘9’ key – at least on most keyboards, which are standardized.
Today’s Problem:
How can 1/2 of 11 be 6?
Last Problem:
How can you divide 8 and get an answer of 3?
Answer:
Draw a vertical line down the middle, and you get a ‘3’ on the left, and an inverted ‘3’ on the right”
Today’s Problem:
What is the next symbol in this series? $ % ^ & * ?
Last Problem:
What word, when you add more letters to it, becomes smaller?
Answer:
small
Today’s Problem:
How can you divide 8 and get an answer of 3?