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Math 10 Game

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1.

What is the number that, when multiplied by any other number, always
results in the same answer?

Answer: Zero.
2. What two numbers, when added together, equal their product?
Answer: 2 and 2.
3. What is the smallest whole number that is equal to seven times the sum
of its digits?
Answer: 21 (because 2 + 1 = 3, and 7 x 3 = 21).
4. A number is increased by 1 and then multiplied by 2. The result is 10. What is the original
number?
Answer: Work backwards: divide 10 by 2 to get 5, then subtract 1. So, the
original number is 4.
5. Using only addition, how do you add eight 8s and get 1,000?
Answer: 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000.
6. In a family, there are 2 brothers and 1 sister. How many children are there in total?
Answer: There are 2 brothers + 1 sister = 3 children in total.
7. If there are three apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
Answer: Two apples (the ones you took away).
8. If you have a pizza cut into 4 equal pieces and you eat 1 piece, how much of the pizza is left?
Answer: The pizza is divided into 4 equal parts, so each part is 1/4 of the pizza.
If you eat 1 piece, you eat 1/4, and 3/4 of the pizza is left. The solution is
found by understanding that 1 – 1/4 = 3/4.
9. There are 45 apples in your basket. You take three apples out of the basket. How many apples
are left in the basket?
Answer: 42 apples.
10. A clock is running 15 minutes slow and shows 2:45. What is the correct time?
Answer: The correct time is 3:00.
11. What is the next number in this sequence: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, …?
Answer: 13 (the sequence consists of prime numbers).
12. If a number is increased by 12, the result is 56. What is the number?
Answer: 44.
13. I can't be bought, but I can be stolen with a glance. I'm
worthless to one but priceless to two. What am I?
Answer: Love
14. Turn me on my side, and I am everything. Cut me in half,
and I am nothing. What am I?
Answer: 8
15. No matter how little or how much you use me, you
change me every month. What am I?
Answer: Calendar
16. How can 8 + 8 = 4?
Answer: When you think in terms of time. 8 AM + 8 hours= 4
o'clock.
17. What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and
water, but no fish?
Answer: A map.
18. A red house is made from red bricks. A blue house is
made from blue bricks. A yellow house is made from yellow
bricks. What is a greenhouse made from?
Answer: glass
19. What is harder to catch the faster you run?
Answer: Your breath
20. What can be swallowed but can also swallow you?
Answer: Pride
21. Which three letters can frighten a thief away?
Answer: ICU
22. Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet you miss me
when I have flown. What am I?
Answer: Time
23. I have no eyes, no legs or ears, and I help move the
earth. What am I?
Answer: Earthworm
24. What is made of water, but if you put it into water, it will
die?
Answer: ice cube
25. What can't talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: Echo
Math Twister #1: The Age Puzzle

1. Three years ago, Alice was three times as old as her sister. In three years, she will be only twice
as old. How old are Alice and her sister now?

Math Twister #2: The Number Riddle

2. I am a two-digit number.
My tens digit is twice my ones digit.
If you reverse me, I am 27 less than the original.
What number am I?

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