11 A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
12 Divide 20 by half and add 30, what do you get?
13 There are two fathers and two sons. They walk into a candy store and each buys a candy bar for 50 cents. The total for all of the candy bars was $1.50. How is that possible?
14 In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half the lake?
15 How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1000?
16 Mr. Smith has 4 daughters. Each of his daughters has a brother. How many children does Mr. Smith have?
17 There are 25 red balls, 47 green balls and 3 blue balls in a basket. There is a blind man. What is the minimum number of balls that the blind man has to pick to make sure that there are at least 2 balls of different colors?
18 Place three matches on a table. Tell a friend to add two more matches to make eight.
19 If you're 8 feet away from a door and with each move you advance half the distance to the door. How many moves will it take to reach the door.
20 The more you have of me, the less you see. Who am I? 21 I shave several times a day, yet I still have a bear
Answer for the above riddles
11. The ball costs 5c. Not 10c. One dollar more than 10c is $1.10, $1.10 + 10c is $1.20 One dollar more than 5c is $1.05. The sum of which is $1.10.
12. 70. 20 divided by 1/2 + 30 = 70
13. There was a grandfather, a father and a son.
14. The patch doubles in size every day and so on the 47th day the patch will be half the size it is on the 48th day.
15. 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
16.five
17. 48 balls. There is a small chance he may pick up 47 green balls in a row.
18.Add two matches to make a roman numeral eight.
19. You will never reach the door, it will always be half the distance, no matter how small!.
20. darkness
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