Are cardboard belts just a waist of paper?
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to re-heat it.
Scientists may come, and scientists may go, but Dr Ampere’s name will always
be current.
There was a doctor who had trained in chemistry. His patients knew he would
either helium or barium.
If Friar Tuck, while attending divinity school, had gotten Ph.D.s in both
comparative theologies and Greek philosophy, would he then have graduated as
a really deep fat friar?
I wanted to learn how to make ice-cream, so I started attending sundae
school.
(And in honor of Halloween weekend)
What do you get when you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its
diameter? Pumpkin Pi.
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ANSWERS TO MATH QUIZ
1. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but nine died. How many did he have left? =
9
2. What digit is the MOST frequent between the numbers 1 and 1,000? = 1
3. What digit is the LEAST frequent? = 0
4. Imagine you are driving a bus. You start off empty but soon pick up 11
passengers. At the next stop you drop of 6 and pick up 3. Third stop 2 get
off and four get on. Then 8 leave and only 1 heads toward the last stop.
At the last stop, 3 get off.
How old does this make the driver? = What is your age? YOU are the driver!
5. How can you add eight 8’s to get the number 1,000? (only use addition; it
can be done!) = 888+88+8+8+8=1000
6. What is 108 minus 12X9, plus 18 minus 9X2, plus 49 minus 7X7, plus 144
minus 12X12, plus 121 minus 11X11, plus 64 minus 16X4? = A lot of work for
nothing
7. A farmer is trying to cross a river. He is taking with him a rabbit,
carrots and a fox, and he has a small raft. He can only bring 1 item a time
across the river because his raft can only fit either the rabbit, the
carrots or the fox. How does he cross the river without having the fox eat
the rabbit or rabbit eat the carrots (which they will do if the two are left
together with him present)?
Take rabbit over, return empty (fox won’t eat carrots)
Take carrots over, return with rabbit
Take fox over leaving rabbit, return empty
Take rabbit over and continue journey
8. As I was going to the fair, I met a man with golden hair. He had 3 sons
each with another son of his own, plus wife and daughter. How many people
were going to the fair? = 1 (you). You MET the others, so they were coming
toward you, away from the fair.
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Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”