How can you make four 9’s equal 100?
99 9/9 = 100
I have four letters in my name,
What am I?
The leek. It has four letters, has been considered both a fruit and a vegetable, looks like a green onion and ends with the letter k.
The leek. It has four letters, has been considered both a fruit and a vegetable, looks like a green onion and ends with the letter k.
What’s special about the word “strengths”?
It has a record nine letters but only one vowel, and it’s one of the longest one-syllable words in English.
It has a record nine letters but only one vowel, and it’s one of the longest one-syllable words in English.
I am liquid in nature,
What am I?
Glass. Technically, glass is an amorphous solid, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Glass. Technically, glass is an amorphous solid, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it.
There are two meanings to me. With one I may need to be broken, with the other I hold on. My favorite characteristic is my charming dimple. What am I?
A tie.
Little Miss Eticote
A candle.
A box without hinges, key or lid,
What is it?
An egg.
(From J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit)
An egg.
(From J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit)
Take away my first letter,
What am I?
A mail carrier. Even when there aren’t any letters left to deliver, they’re job is still the mail carrier.
A mail carrier. Even when there aren’t any letters left to deliver, they’re job is still the mail carrier.
Replace the letters with numbers to make this a valid mathematical equation.
COPS
CLOSE
CELLAR
CORPSE
CASE
+ COLLAR
--------
RECTOR
2730
29704
249918
278304
2104
+ 279918
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842678
2730
29704
249918
278304
2104
+ 279918
--------
842678
Two bikes are traveling toward each other at a constant speed of 10 mph. When the bikes are 20 miles apart, a bee flies from the front wheel of one of the bikes toward the other bike at a constant speed of 25 mph. As soon as it reaches the front wheel of the other bike, it immediately turns around and flies at 25 mph toward the first bike. It continues this pattern until the two bikes smush the bee between the two front tires.
How far did the bee travel?
25 miles.
The easiest way to think about this is to consider the time. The bikes will take 1 hour to touch, given that they start 20 miles apart and are each traveling toward each other at 10 mph.
Therefore the bee is buzzing back and forth at 25 mph for 1 hour.
25 miles.
The easiest way to think about this is to consider the time. The bikes will take 1 hour to touch, given that they start 20 miles apart and are each traveling toward each other at 10 mph.
Therefore the bee is buzzing back and forth at 25 mph for 1 hour.