Riddles and Brain Teasers

What Can Be Swallowed

What can be swallowed, But can also swallow you?

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Pride.

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TOWN Rebus

What does this represent?

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Downtown.

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Suppose a small bank has one teller and customer transactions take 10 minutes on average. With 5.8 customers arriving per hour, what is the expected wait time? What would it be if you added a second teller?

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With one teller, customers will wait nearly five hours on average. But adding a second teller makes the wait go down to 3 minutes.Thanks to John D. Cook for this one.

With one teller, customers will wait nearly five hours on average. But adding a second teller makes the wait go down to 3 minutes.

Thanks to John D. Cook for this one.

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Mountain Covered With Snow

Why doesn’t a mountain covered with snow catch cold?

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Because it has a snowcap. ;) I know, it was more joke than riddle, but I found it amusing.

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Two Scruffy Dogs

Two scruffy dogs were walking down the street. The first dog turned to the other and said, “Do you realize that if one of your fleas jumped onto me we would have the same number of fleas?” The second replied, “Yes, but if one of your fleas jumped onto me I would have five times as many fleas as you.” How many fleas are on each dog to begin with?

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2 and 4

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Oct 31 = Dec 25

How can Oct 31 and Dec 25 be the same?

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Because Oct 31 represents the octal (base 8) number 31, which, when converted to decimal, is 25. Dec 25 is short for Decimal 25, thus the two are equal.

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