Maths, logic, trivia, puns, general silliness - an assortment of stuff too disparate to go under any other title. In other words, same old rubbish...


-1. I drove my car east in a straight line for half a mile and when I stopped the car was facing west. How?

-2. A bag of potatoes weighs 72 lb plus half its weight. How much does the bag of potatoes weigh?

-3. In this addition sum, only one of the decimal points is in the correct position. Can you make it correct by altering the 4 incorrect decimal places?
38.2
6.94
124.6
18.37
---------
928.36

-4. A rebus: vitmin

-5. How many yards in a furlong?

-6. I have a few jokes about unemployed people, but ---- of them ----

-7. What letter is two to the left of the letter immediately to the right of the letter three to the left of the letter two to the right of the letter E?

-8. A man was born in 1993 and died in 1999 aged 73. How come?

-9. What unusual feature is shared by these two calculatios?
3 x 1.5 = 4.5
1.2 x 6 = 7.2

-10. Tritium is a radioactive isotope of which gas?

8. 1993 and 1999 are room numbers.??

Hi Rog.

5 - 220

Hi Remi, hi Marie - both good!

7. C

1. Driving in reverse perhaps, although that seems too straightforward...

4. Vitamin A deficiency

6. " None of them work"

Bernie

Four little gems, ladies and gentlemen!

9. Remove the decimal points and you get:
3 x 15 = 45
12 x 6 = 72

2. 144. In this type of puzzle, a lot of people divide by 2 but they should multiply by 2.

9. Additionally, the digits on the left add up to the total on the right (3 + 1.5 = 4.5 and 1.2 + 6 = 7.2)

Cheryl - nice try, but I think this is true for any a x b.c = d.e (e.g 4 x 2.1 = 8.4, 4 x 21 = 84)

Remi, Lex - nice solves!

10. hydrogen

Good one, Remi!

I can do #3 if you change 6.94 to 3.94 or change 48.37 to 18.37

Rog, that no.3 is tough. I wish I could call Denis, but there isn't a phone down there I mean up there!

Will try and cobble together a "get you started"

Aargh!!! You were right Pandora - it should be 18.37 Big apologies to you and Remi and anyone else who was flummoxed. Denis would never have let me forget it...

I'm trying to use the numeric pad instead of the main keyboard and obviously hit the line above. I will boil up some noodles and perform the dread deed on myself so you don't have to be disturbed

It's okay, Rog. I've done it myself. Happy new year!

3. Finally got it.
3.82
69.4
1.246
18.37
_____
92.836

HNY Rog.

curly

<Creeps out of the hole he's been hiding in >

Nice solve, the pair of you!