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1) One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How come?
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2) If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it now?

2006-11-11 05:55:03 · 5 answers · asked by msdrosi 3 in Entertainment & Music Jokes & Riddles

Another one:

3) About 2000 B. C. there lived Ahmes, a royal secretary and mathematician of the Pharaoh Amenemhat III. In 1853 an Englishman Rhind found one of Ahmes's papyruses near the temple of Ramses II. in Thebes. The papyrus is a rectangle 33 cm wide and about 5 m long. There is the following math brain teaser on it (besides others).
100 measures of corn must be divided among 5 workers, so that the second worker gets as many measures more than the first worker, as the third gets more than the second, the fourth more than the third and the fifth more than the fourth. The first two workers shall get seven times less measures of corn than the three others. How many measures of corn shall each worker get?

10 pts if you get all 3! Good luck ;-)
By the way I know the answers...

2006-11-11 05:55:54 · update #1

Thank you all for your answers!

dd: your response was clever and you're right, you really answered my original question so here are your 10 pts...enjoy!

Tammy: Your answer was correct, but you submitted it way too soon which makes me think you researched the answer and didn't figure it out yourself...

Yepitsjessi: Your answer was only partially correct ;-)

2006-11-11 10:52:25 · update #2

5 answers

The real qestion you asked was "Riddles...do you dare?"
and yes i dare but i dont know these lol. So im the only
one who answered the true question so please give me
my two points *begs* have a good day! :)

2006-11-11 06:19:02 · answer #1 · answered by al3xxx 3 · 1 1

1. At the time she went into labor, the mother of the twins was travelling by boat. The older twin, Terry, was born first early on March 1st. The boat then crossed the International Date line (or any time zone line) and Kerry, the younger twin, was born on February the 28th. In a leap year the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older brother.

2. it's 9 p.m

3. 2 equations give a clear answer to the given question:
5w + 10d = 100
7*(2w + d) = 3w + 9d
Where w is amount of corn for the first worker, d is the difference (amount of corn) between two consecutive workers. So this is the solution:
1st worker = 10/6 measures of corn
2nd worker = 65/6 measures of corn
3rd worker = 120/6 (20) measures of corn
4th worker = 175/6 measures of corn
5th worker = 230/6 measures of corn

=)

2006-11-11 14:00:53 · answer #2 · answered by §èxÿtàmmý ® 5 · 2 0

Kerry was born on 28th FEB and her twin was born on the leap year i think

2006-11-11 14:19:55 · answer #3 · answered by chass_lee 6 · 1 0

1) it was her brother who happens to be one of a twin set but not her twin.
2) 10:00am

2006-11-11 14:00:15 · answer #4 · answered by eeyoree rocks2003 7 · 1 0

the answer to the first one would be that they live in two different parts of the world!!!

2006-11-11 14:02:36 · answer #5 · answered by yepitsjessi 1 · 1 0

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