PROBLEM OF THE WEEK

Riddle: A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?

Riddle: When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?

Riddle: You want to boil a two-minute egg. If you only have a three-minute timer (hourglass), a four-minute timer, and a five-minute timer, how can you boil the egg for only two minutes?

Riddle: How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?

Riddle: If eleven plus two equals one, what does nine plus five equal?

Riddle: A sphere has three, a circle has two, and a point has zero. What is it?

Riddle: How many sides does a circle have?

Riddle: One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number.  What is the pattern?

Riddle: The rungs of a 10-foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart. If the water is rising at the rate of one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers the ladder?

Riddle: How do you make the number 7 even without addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division?