Math Riddles I have 10 red socks and 10 blue socks in a drawer. How many socks must I take out to ensure that I have at least one matching pair? One how many to ensure I have at least a pair of red and a pair of blue? Answer: Three for one pair, and twelve to ensure one pair of each color. Solution: Reveal Answer 0 0
Math Riddles What happened to the plant in the math classroom? Answer: It grew square roots, of course. Solution: Reveal Answer 0 0
Math Riddles Your shirt has two holes in it. How many holes are there? Answer: There are six holes because it has already has four holes in it. Solution: Reveal Answer 0 0
Math Riddles Placed above it makes greater things small. Placed beside it makes small things greater. In matters that counts it always comes first. Where others increase it keeps all things the same. What is it? Answer: 1 (one) Solution: Reveal Answer 1 0
Math Riddles If it takes four rat catchers four minutes to kill four rats, how many rat catchers would be needed to catch 50 rats in 50 minutes? Answer: The same number of rat catchers, four Solution: Reveal Answer 2 0
Math Riddles In olden days, the student of logic was given this problem: If half of 5 were 3, what would one-third of 10 be? Answer: It would be 4 Solution: Reveal Answer 0 0