At a shop, the cost for two cereal bars and three small bottles of milk is 5.50 Swiss francs.
The cost for two cereal bars and two small bottles of milk is 4.40 Swiss francs.
How much does one cereal bar cost?
At a shop, the cost for two cereal bars and three small bottles of milk is 5.50 Swiss francs.
The cost for two cereal bars and two small bottles of milk is 4.40 Swiss francs.
How much does one cereal bar cost?
The figure shows the diagram of a living room floor.
The walls are shaded.
What is the area of the living room floor?
Do not count the walls.
There are 1.52 US dollars to the UK pound.
How many dollars would you receive if you exchanged 40 pounds?
The original price of an umbrella was $16.
What was the price of the umbrella after two 50% markdowns?
Ann went to a movie. The movie started at 11:55 A.M. and lasted 117 minutes.
What time did the movie end?
At 11:30 A.M. Alex started painting a fence.
By noon, he had painted this much of the fence:
If he continues at this rate, at what time should he finish painting this fence?
Remember, there may be more than one correct answer.
Ben's grandmother asked him to go to the store to buy at least 1000 grams of strawberries.
Find the best deal.
The larger counter (circle) shows seconds.
The smaller counter (circle) shows minutes.
How many seconds have passed?
A farmer normally sells sheep for $200 each. This winter, the farmer is offering one free sheep for each purchase of four.
Anna wants to buy 11 sheep and Kate needs 14 sheep.
How many dollars will they save if they purchase the sheep together, rather than separately?
The distance between two buoys can be anything between 8 and 10 meters,
even though the water depth is always the same when the distance is measured.
What is the distance between their anchors?
Two cyclists race on a circular track.
The first can ride around the track in 7 seconds, while the second in 6 seconds.
If they start off at the same point and in the same direction, what is the time when the second cyclist overtakes the first cyclist?
The boxing ring is 6 meters in length on each side between the ropes.
How much rope do we need for the ring?
A county hospital proudly announces
"A new baby is born every 20 minutes, 24 hours a day, and 500 births each week."
What is the difference between the two advertised numbers?
An amoeba is a shapeless unicellular organism.
An amoeba propagates by simple division into two amoebas; each split takes 3 minutes to complete.
An hour ago, I put one amoeba in an empty jam jar.
Now, the jar is full of amoebas.
When was the jar half full?
Four hundred dried cocoa beans weigh 1 pound or 0.45kg.
What is the weight of the bag with 60,000 beans?
Berlin is +6oC.
London is +3oC.
Moscow is -11oC.
New York is +5oC.
Oslo is -7oC.
Paris is +10oC.
Rome is +12oC.
Sydney is +21oC.
How much higher is the temperature in Rome than the temperature in Oslo?
Mr. Johnson has a large piece of land, as pictured here.
He divided the land into 4 parts by 2 red lines.
Which two parts have the same area?
John had $89 in his piggy bank.
He added $32.
How could he split the money in the piggybank in the ratio of 10:1?
A team has $105 to buy balls.
One ball costs $8. The team gets every sixth ball for half-price.
What is the largest number of balls the team can obtain?
At 11:00 A.M. Alex started painting a fence.
By noon, he had painted this much of the fence:
If he continues at this rate, at what time should he finish painting this fence?
Tom drove his car 150 kilometers in 4 hours.
He continued to drive at double this speed.
How many hours will it take him to drive another 225 kilometers?
What is the largest number of pizza pieces I can obtain by making three diameter cuts?
I don't move the pieces.
If Jane drinks a glass of milk during every school lunch, how much milk does she drink in a 180-day school year?
Each glass is 1/5 liters.
Alex and Bill have been best friends for three years.
They plan to keep the relationship for all their life and live 100 years.
Estimate how many months there are in 100 years?
If a pen costs $1.69 and a pencil costs $0.79, which of the following is the best estimate for the cost of 10 pens and 5 erasers?
If Gerry has $5 in dimes and Jane has the same amount in quarters, how many coins do they have?
Dime = 10 cents.
Quarter = 25 cents.
Martin has 2,000 bills, 2,000 Czech korunas each.
How rich is he if $1 is equal to 20 Czech korunas?
Gerry has 1 penny, 2 nickels, and 3 dimes.
How many different sums of money can he make, if he uses at least one coin?
Penny = 1 cent.
Nickel = 5 cents.
Dime = 10 cents.
Quarter = 25 cents.
The largest denomination of currency ever printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was the $100,000 Series 1934 Gold Certificate featuring the portrait of President Wilson. The notes were used only for official transactions between Federal Reserve Banks and were not circulated among the general public.
How many $100 bills are equal to the note?
According to The New York Times the average New Yorker produces nearly three pounds of garbage every day.
If the average weight of a New Yorker is 165 pounds, how much time does he/she need to produce the garbage that is equals to his/her weight?
Gasoline costs $1.99 per gallon.
How much will it cost Gerry to fill his car's tank with 11 gallons?
A "granny’s dozen" is one more than a dozen.
Gerry's granny prepared four of her dozens of delicious biscuits.
How many biscuits did she cook?
We use only 2 kinds of boxes for eggs.
What is the smallest number of the boxes needed to pack 100 eggs?
Gruyère is a hard yellow cheese, named after the town of Gruyères in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
The cheese costs $11 for 1/2 kilograms.
How much will 1 and 1/2 kilograms of cheese cost?
Most worker bees only live for around six weeks. In its lifetime, one bee usually makes one tenth of a teaspoon of honey, which weighs about 7 grams.
How many bees work their entire lifetime to make a 500 gram jar of honey, which Gerry usually eats in two months?
A car has traveled a distance of 15 km in 15 minutes.
What is the average speed of the car in km per hour?
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building.
Estimate the height of a storey in metres.
Triathlon involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances.
Jane is training for a triathlon.
She swims 4 days a week. Each day she swims about 2 km.
She runs 3 days a week. Each day she runs about 12 km.
She cycles 2 days a week. Each day she rides about 22 km.
About how far does Jane swim / run and cycle in a week?
People usually have 32 teeth, cats - 30, and dogs - 42.
How many teeth does the family have if the baby still has no teeth?
Bob used to weigh 100kg.
His new stressful job causes him to lose 2kg every week.
How much does he weigh after 3 months of work?
If A = $1, B = $2, C = $3, ..., and Z = $26, how much is the cheapest 3-letter word worth?
Consider only words that denote a thing.
Each of my four best friends has $100 and I have $200.
How much may I give to each of them, so that everybody has the same amount of money?
"Friends share all things." - Pythagoras
In a survey of 800 students in a school, 600 students were found to draw with their right hand, and 150 students had no preference: they draw with either their right hand or their left hand.
Find how many students use their left hand when drawing?
Anna, Betty, and Cindy are playing tennis.
The winner of a set stays on, and the loser waits her turn again.
Anna played 4 sets,
Betty played 6 sets, Cindy played 4 sets.
How many sets did they play?
There are 6,000 questions at this website.
If it takes exactly 1 minute to solve a problem, how much time does it take to solve all problems visiting each question only once?
Gerry has fifteen coconuts and Jane has only nine.
How many coconuts should Gerry give to Jane so that she has three times more than he does?
The total of the ages of Alex, Betty and Craig is 55 years.
What was the total of their ages 12 years ago when they entered their primary school?
The question is typical for PISA Test.
PISA stands for Programme for International Student Assessment.
Gerry drives through the streets from crossroad A to crossroad B. Some of the streets are closed.
What is the minimum distance he needs to drive if the length of the square street blocks is 40 meters?
Gerry wants to get three different color tokens in each plate.
What is the least number of exchanges of two tokens that is needed?
The length of the Earth's day is 23 hours 56 minutes.
The length of the Mars day is 24 hours 37 minutes.
How much longer is the Mars day?
In a class, 1/8 received an A grade, 1/4 received a B grade, 1/2 received a C grade and the rest received a D grade.
How many children received a D grade if there are 24 students in the class?
Gerry ties several knots on a piece of rope. The knots are 14cm apart from one another.
How far is the sixth knot from the second one?
In a country, the winter season is the three months: December, January, and February.
How long does the longest winter season last in the country?
John and Mary have the same amount of money.
How much must John give her so that she has twenty dollars more than he?
A thumb war tournament had four players. Each player played every other player only once, with no ties. If Anna won 2 games, Bill won 1 game, and Cindy won 2 games, how many games did Daniel win?
The picture shows a subway map.
Each of the metro lines has its own color.
How many different metro lines are there on the map?
A collector puts all of his old cars up for sale.
The price of a car is $34,900.
How many cars can you buy with $800,000?
Jane wants to use her soapbox racer at the park where there is a sharp-edged ramp. Last time she tried it the bottom of the racer struck the corner of the ramp, making a horrible sound; this was extremely uncool. (Notice that the base of the racer always lines up with the axis of the wheels in these designs.)
What should Jane do to restore her cool reputation?
Author: Leslie Green
A chain with identical links is hung between two points.
We increase the number of links until it breaks due to own weight.
At which point does it most likely break?
Four teams are in group A of a soccer (football) tournament for young girls.
Each team plays one match against each of the other teams, with three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat.
What is the smallest possible total score (the sum of scores of all teams) in such a group?
If it is raining at midnight in an old English town, what are the chances of the sun shining in 100 hours time?
There are several books on a bookshelf.
If one book is the sixth from the left and sixth from the right, how many books are on the shelf?
In a certain everyday environment, people say that 2100 plus something and 2200 minus something are the same thing.
What is the "something" if it is not 50?
In computing, a hash is a fixed length output value computed from an arbitrary length input. As an example, it is unsafe to store plain-text passwords anywhere, so it is usual for a computer to hash the password and store that. Any slight change to the input has a large and unpredictable change on the output.
The SHA-256 hashing function produces a 256 bit result from any input. Given that a hexadecimal (hex) character has values between 0 and 15 (0 to F in hex), how may hex characters are needed to print an SHA-256 hash?
Author: Leslie Green
Gerry’s parents pay him 10 dollars for an "A", 5 dollars for a "B", and 1 dollar for a "C".
Gerry has 15 marks and got a total of 99 dollars this week.
How many A’s did he get?
In Russia, spring is March, April and May (92 days); summer is June, July, and August (92 days); autumn is September, October, and November (91 days); winter is December, January, and February.
What is usually the shortest season in the country?
In Russia, spring is March, April and May (92 days); summer is June, July, and August (92 days); autumn is September, October, and November (91 days); winter is December, January, and February (90 days or 91 days in a leap year).
Which word contains the smallest number of letters?
The picture shows a target that indicates the scores that arrows can make.
Which of the scores can you get if all your four arrows land on target?
Seven bus stops are equally spaced along a road. The distance from the fifth to the last is 1200m.
What is the distance from the first to the last?
A bike is bought at $640 and sold at a profit of $64 after spending $225 on its upgrade.
What is the Selling Price?
A classroom of 32 students contains an equal number of boys and girls.
When two boys rush out to visit a restroom, and several girls run out to chat, that leaves twice as many boys as girls in the classroom.
How many students are there in the classroom now?
Dates can be represented as DD.MM.YYYY.
For example, January the fifteenth 2018 can be written as 15.01.2018.
What is the smallest possible sum of the digits in the 21st century (2000 - 2099)?
John has fixed the numbers 1 through 100 on 100 doors of a motel.
How many number signs has he fixed?
Ten days ago, there were 10 coins in the first pile, 15 coins in the second pile, and 20 coins in the third pile.
The first pile is increased by 1 coin everyday, the second pile by 2, and the third by 3.
How many coins are there in the piles today?
The cost to rent the car is $19 for the first three hours plus $6 for each additional hour. Gerry can spend no more than $100.
What is the maximum number of hours for which Gerry can rent the car?
Father gave Gerry five dozens and five nuts.
Gerry gave Jane five tens.
How many nuts does Gerry keep for himself?
How much time do you need to solve 7,200 problems at the A+Click website if you spend 1 minute to solve a problem?
The picture shows an old electricity meter, which is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed by a residence.
Can you read how many kilowatt-hours my house has consumed?
A carton of six eggs has a total weight of 440 grams (g).
If the carton itself weighs 50g, how much does an egg weigh, on average?
John was twice as rich as Mary.
When they married, their common wealth reached 12 million.
How rich was Mary before the marriage?
The first world record in the 100 metres sprint for women was recognized by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922. Marie Mejzlíková ran 100 metres in 13.6 seconds.
In 2018, Jane ran it in 14.43 seconds.
How much faster (in seconds) does Jane have to run to tie with the old record?
The number of hours left today is half of the number of hours already passed. 
We want to buy 120 kilograms of potatoes. 
A dozen balloons cost 48 cents. 
Jim is happy this evening. 
Which of the following is equal to 3 quarters of a million dollars?
How many more houses are there straight on than to the left?
Find W.
How many minutes are left to midnight?
If the sum of Evguenia and Olga's ages is 44 now, what will the sum of their ages be in 44 years? 
If I convert all the letters in this sentence to UPPER CASE, in what language will it be written?
Time is money 
What is the difference between 12:55 and 1:05 ?
How many years old will Anna be 66 months after her 6th birthday?
My eight credit cards weigh 100 grams. 
A pack of 500 paper sheets is 6cm thick. 
Which number is missing?
Gold chains are sold for $15 per inch. 
Which is correct?
How many small circles are there in the emblem of the Cathedral of Lausanne?