PROBLEM OF THE WEEK

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?

Riddle: A box of hardware contains nuts and bolts. The bolts account for 25 percent of the number of items in the box. What percentage are the bolts of the entire box?

Riddle: Find four numbers, the sum of which is 45, so that if 2 is added to the first number, 2 is subtracted from the second number, the third number is multiplied by 2 and the fourth number is divided by 2, then the four numbers so produced are all the same. What are the four numbers?

Riddle: Jack had only $2, but he needed $3 for his cab fare home. He went to a pawn shop and pawned his $2 for $1.50. Jack then bumped into Don and told him that he would sell him his $2 pawn ticket for $1.50. Don agreed. Jack started out with $2 and he ended up with $3. Who is out the extra dollar and why?