PROBLEM OF THE WEEK

Riddle: If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?

Riddle: If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door?

Riddle: How much will a 38° angle measure when looked at under a microscope that magnifies ten times?

Riddle: What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?

Riddle: If 10 bags of jelly beans and 6 licorice sticks cost $1, and 10 licorice sticks and 6 jelly bean bags cost 92 cents. How much does one licorice stick cost?

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

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

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