I can't figure out these brain teasers. Can you?

Question

1. Axel Greese sold two cars for $6000 each, making 20% on Car #1 and losing 20% on #2. Did he make money, lose money, or break even?

2. The new science teacher claims he can place a beaker in the middle of the science lab and crawl into it. How?

3. You threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then you ate the outside and composted the inside. What did you just eat?

4. It's impossible to survive longer than one week without drinking water; yet Maia managed a ten-day desert crossing without finding water or taking any with her - how?

5. Joel was in Antartica studying the greenhouse effect. He recorded the current outside temperature as minus 40, not specifying if it was Celcius or Fahrenheit. Why?

6. Sometimes 2 can be added to 11 to get 1. When does that happen?

7. Forward I'm heavy, backward I'm not. What am I?

8. Bert claims that he can point his car north, drive it for one mile, and end up one mile south of where he started - without turning around. How?

Answer 1

1made
2 he crawls across the floor to the beaker
3a microwavable chicken meal
4 a camel

5celius is what scientist use
6a clock
7a ton
8he drives backwards

Answer 2

1. Axel Greese broke even.
2. The science teacher has a huge beaker.
3. An egg.
4. The food that Maia brought must've had some water in it.
5. Specifying if it was Celcius or Fahrenheit doesnt matter- It being hotter in the greenhouse does matter.
6. When it's 11:00.
7. I dont know........
8. He's at the north pole.

Answer 3

1 he made money on car 1 and lost money on car 2 so he broke even
2 he crawled across the room and bumped into the beaker ..he didn't say he would crawl inside the beaker
3 corn ..you throw away the husk and cook the inside then you eat the corn off the cobb and throw the cob in the compost
4 maria is a camel
5 it doesn't matter as long as the temp is warmer in the greenhouse
6 when you add 2hrs to a clock making go from 11 to 1
7 ton is heavy when wrote backwards its not
8 he's at the north pole

Answer 4

1) lost money.

% profit are based on purchase price not selling price. So the first car was bought for 5000 and sold for 6000 making 1000 (20%) of 5000. Second car was bought for 7500 and sold for 6000, loosing 1500 (20% of 7500).
1000 - 1500 =-500

2) Many ways. Can crawl in to smashed beaker. Can crawl in to science lab.Can craw in to it (which is NOT the same as crawling inside it). Science teacher is not human or can shape change.

3) see other answers

4) Assumes Maia is human?

5)At this temp they are the same -40 Celsius = -40 Fahrenheit.

6) clock

7) ton reversed is not.

8) Points car north. Then drives in reverse.

Answer 5

1 - Made money
2 - He was crawling into the middle of the science lab
3 -
4- Maia is a camel?
5- It's the same in both
6-
7-
8-He's at the North Pole?

Answer 6

1. Made Money (sorry can't explain)

2. She crawled in the science lab.

3. an egg (throw the egg sheel away, eat the yolg than the white stuff)

4. She's a camel.

5. Because it is always celcius in the terms of science.

6. You add 2 HOURS to 11:00 to get 1, 1:00.

7.TON (Ton is heavy, but spelled backward it is NOT)

8.He pointed at north, but he didn't go north, he went south.



Have a good evening and please leave a commet if you pick me as best answer.

Answer 7

I only figured out a few...
1) He broke even. (20 - 20 = 0)
2) The science teacher crawled into the SCIENCE LAB. (Not the beaker.)
8) He drove in reverse.
Hope that helped a little! :)

Answer 8

1
2 crawl into the middle of the room
3 corn
4 she is a camel
5 they use celcius in just about everywhere but the U.S.
6
7 ton
8 drives in reverse

Answer 9

1. break even
2. no idea
3. Oh! I heard this one before! but forgot...
4. it was a steppe and had ice and snow, so she ate it
5. because you always use celcius in terms of science
6. don't know
7. a wagon
8. when he points it north he just points it straight ahead, so it's not real north, in reality, it's south

Answer 10

2) he can crawl to the middle of the lab
3) i've got no idea
4) she swallowed her spit?
5) why would it matter?
6) i've still got no idea
7) ooh, i actually know this one...the word "ton"
8) i've heard this before, but i don't remember!
Sorry!, i hope i got at least one right!