You need to buy exactly 100 animals with exactly $100. Cows are $10 apiece, pigs are $3 apiece and ducks are $.50 apiece. How many of each can you buy with exactly $100?
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 January 23rd, 2011 | Category: Animals, Mathematical, Money |  Submit a guess/solution |  Email This RiddleA boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, “If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50.” The boy looked around and saw no scale so he [...] November 10th, 2010 | Category: Mathematical, Money, Real Life, Word Riddles | 2 guesses | Email This RiddleTom’s mom has three kids penny, nickle and_______. The other day, I was third in line at my neighborhood convenience store waiting to pay for my items. The first person in line bought something that cost $3.75. She handed the clerk a $5 bill and received a dollar and a quarter change. Customer #2 bought two items that totaled $4.99. He paid with a [...] November 1st, 2010 | Category: Brain Riddle, History, Mathematical, Money, Real Life, Word Riddles | 2 guesses | Email This RiddleA King has 100 coins to share between his three homely daughters. He gives the eldest 50 coins, the middle daughter 30 coins and the youngest (and most homely of all) 20 coins. He sends them to the market to sell these coins, with these four very special conditions: Each and every coin is worth exactly the [...] Tim inherited 25% more money from his father than his sister, Jane. He wants to give her some fraction of his money so that both of them end up with exactly the same amount of inheritance. What percentage of his money should Tim give to Jane? October 12th, 2010 | Category: Brain Riddle, Mathematical, Money, Real Life | 2 guesses | Email This RiddleLast year, the Riddledude received a 10% raise in salary (from RiddleDude, Inc.) but his partner Rodger suffered a 10% cut in salary. This year, The Riddledude got a 10% cut while Rodger got a 10% raise. Who’s making more money now? A customer at a 7-11 store selected four items to buy, and was told that the cost was $7.11. He was curious that the cost was the same as the store name, so he enquired as to how the figure was derived. The clerk said that he had simply multiplied the prices of the four [...] Recently I had a hankering to read Edward Gibbons’ three-volume set, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, no small undertaking considering there are exactly 2,500 pages of text and illustrations in each of three volumes. Sadly, as I reached for them on the shelf I could see that mold had damaged every page and [...] September 1st, 2010 | Category: Brain Riddle, Mathematical, Money, Real Life | Submit a guess/solution | Email This RiddleWhy are there no billionaires in England? |
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