Jessica
September 14, 2009, 02:21 PM
1. What are the only English words with three consecutive repeated letters. For example, sweet-toothed would be one (ee,tt,oo) if it weren't for the hyphen.
Bookkeeper and the related forms of the word, such as bookkeeping.
2. A man is six feet tall, is a clerk at a butcher shop, and wears size 11 shoes. What does he weigh?
He weighs meat. (These word play riddles and jokes are the toughest sometimes - especially for those who don't speak English as their first language.)
3. 75% can be written as 3/4. How would 58 1/3% be written as a fraction (when reduced to the lowest denominator)?
7/12. The easiest way to do this? 58 1/3% is 58.333.. out of 100. Multiply both the denominator and numerator by three to make them both whole numbers, and you have 175/300. Now just reduce this.
More coming soon ;)
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Bookkeeper and the related forms of the word, such as bookkeeping.
2. A man is six feet tall, is a clerk at a butcher shop, and wears size 11 shoes. What does he weigh?
He weighs meat. (These word play riddles and jokes are the toughest sometimes - especially for those who don't speak English as their first language.)
3. 75% can be written as 3/4. How would 58 1/3% be written as a fraction (when reduced to the lowest denominator)?
7/12. The easiest way to do this? 58 1/3% is 58.333.. out of 100. Multiply both the denominator and numerator by three to make them both whole numbers, and you have 175/300. Now just reduce this.
More coming soon ;)
source: Brainpower (http://www.increasebrainpower.com/index.html)