Wednesday, 23 September 2009

DAY 96
Two numbers are reciprocals of each other. One number is 9 times as large as the other. What are the two numbers?

Answer:

3 and 1/3..............X = 9/X

DAY 97
Each page of a book has 100 rows with 50 dots in each row. The book contains 1,000,000 dots. How many pages are there in the book?

Answer:

200 pages

DAY 98
A pen costs a dollar more than an eraser. Together they cost $1.10. What is the price of each?

Answer:

$1.05 for the pen and $.05 for the eraser.

DAY 99
By what number would you multiply 692 to get 692,692?

Answer:

1,001

DAY 100
How long will it take to cut a 10-foot piece of wood into 10 equal pieces if it takes 1 minute to make each cut?

Answer:

9 minutes.............the tenth piece falls off after the ninth cut.

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