Math Riddles

 

Question: A man wants to have a party in thirty-one days where he will be serving his 1000 barrels of wine. The only problem is that one of his enemies poisoned one of the barrels. The poison kills any man who drinks any of the wine in about 30 days, give or take a few hours. The man has 10 plants that are also killed by the poison in 30 days and can be used to test the wine. How can identify the single poisoned barrel of wine?


Question: In a house of Kardak's family each brother have a sisters as double as their brothers and each sister have brothers as same as their sister. How many brothers and sisters in Kardak's family ?

The 6 sisters (medium)

Question: There are 6 sisters. Each sister has 1 brother. How many brothers are in the sisters' family?

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: Tom wants to send Sally an expensive ring through the mail because they live thousands of miles apart. The only problem is that everything sent through the mail is stolen unless there is a lock put on it. Both Tom and Sally have plenty of locks and keys but they don't have any of the same locks or keys.

How can Tom send Sally the ring without it getting stolen?