Math Puzzles
By Terri Townes
November 21, 2008
Can you answer the math puzzles? I dare you to answer them.
| 1.) At a sports banquet there are one hundred athletes. Each one is either a football or basketball player. At least one is a football player. Given any two of the athletes, at least one is a basketball player. How many of the athletes are football players? |
| 2.) The following number is the only one of its kind. Can you figure out what is so special about it? 8,549,176,320. |
| 3.) A box of candy bars can be divided equally (without cutting anything) among 2, 3, or 7 people. What is the least number of candy bars the box could contain? |
| 4.)
Use each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 once only, in this
multiplication problem to make it correct. ? ? x ? —— ? ? ? |
| 5.) Bob is ten years older than his brother Stan. There was a time when Bob was three times as old as Stan. What was Stan's age when Bob was three times as old? |
