If three puppies can eat three hot dogs in three minutes, how long will it take 100 puppies to eat 100 hot dogs?
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Answer: 3 minutes
The key to solving this is recognizing the rate at which the puppies eat. If three puppies can eat three hot dogs in three minutes, that means each puppy eats one hot dog in three minutes. Since all the puppies eat at the same rate, 100 puppies would still take just three minutes to eat 100 hot dogs—because each of them is eating one hot dog at the same time.
A pizza shop runs a special deal: for every five empty pizza boxes you return, you get one free pizza. Joe has gathered a total of 25 empty boxes. How many free pizzas can he claim?
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Answer: 6
Joe starts with 25 empty pizza boxes. Since the shop’s deal allows him to trade in five boxes for one free pizza, he can immediately get five free pizzas (25 ÷ 5 = 5).
Now, after receiving those five pizzas, Joe will have five more empty boxes from them. He can trade those in for one more free pizza.
So in total, Joe gets 6 free pizzas—five from his original 25 boxes and one more from the boxes he collected after eating those pizzas.
What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS
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Answer: The next three letters are ENT.
Explanation:
The given sequence OTTFFSS represents the first letters of the numbers in order:
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
Following this pattern, the next numbers are:
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
So, the next three letters in the sequence are ENT.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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The answer is the letter ‘M’.
Explanation:
- The letter M appears once in the word “minute”.
- It appears twice in the word “moment”.
- It does not appear at all in the phrase “a thousand years”.
This riddle plays with how letters appear in different words rather than their actual meanings!
I take the number nine, add five to it, and end up with two. But the answer isn’t fourteen. How can that be?
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The question isn’t referring to regular addition—it’s talking about time. If it’s 9 o’clock and you add 5 hours, the clock moves forward to 2 o’clock. Since clocks work in a 12-hour cycle, adding 5 to 9 doesn’t give you 14—it gives you 2.