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Name_______________________________________________Date________________ _________ Mathematics Problem Solving Volume 6, Number 13, December 14, 2000 www.rhlschool.com
Riddles
1. I am a number. I am the product of the number of months in a year and the number of years in a century. What number am I?
2. I am a month. All months have more days than I have. I can occur in winter and summer. What month am I?
4. I am a unit of measurement. I am not metric. When my number is zero, there are still a lot of me. When they say that I number thirty-two, water freezes. What am I?
5. I am a unit of measurement. I am one half of one fourth of one fourth of one fourth of a gallon. What am I?
Name_______________________________________________Date________________ _________ Mathematics Problem Solving Volume 6, Number 10, November 13, 2000 www.rhlschool.com
Riddles
1. I am a number. I am greater than the product of 4 and eight. I am less than the difference between 550 and 515. I am an even number. What number am I?
2. I am a fraction. I am greater than 1/5 and less than 1/3. My numerator is a one. What fraction am I?
3. I am a number. To find out what I am you must take all of the digits in the largest four digit number and add them together. Divide that number by the minimum U.S. voting age and multiply the answer by itself. Take that number and divide it by the number of quarts in a gallon. Add the result to the number of items in a gross. Now you know what I am! What number am I?
4. I am a number. I am the sum of the answers to the other three riddles. What number am I?