Math Riddles

 

Question: You have been given the task of transporting 3,000 apples 1,000 miles from Appleland to Bananaville. Your truck can carry 1,000 apples at a time. Every time you travel a mile towards Bananaville you must pay a tax of 1 apple but you pay nothing when going in the other direction (towards Appleland).

What is highest number of apples you can get to Bananaville?


Question: Sum Sam and Product Pete are in class when their teacher gives Sam the Sum of two numbers and Pete the product of the same two numbers (these numbers are greater than or equal to 2). They must figure out the two numbers.

Sam: I don't know what the numbers are Pete.
Pete: I knew you didn't know the numbers... But neither do I.
Sam: In that case, I do know the numbers.

What are the numbers?

Question: A tomato vine is 3 meters long. The bottom foot of the vine doesn't grow any tomatoes but the rest of the vine grows a tomato every 5 inches.

How many vegetables can grow off of the vine?

Question: It takes ten men ten hours to build a certain wall. How long does it take five men to build the same wall?

Question: A smart landscaper is given the task of placing 4 trees so that they are all the same distant away from each other.

How does he do this?