Math Riddles

 
Trump (medium)

By LTG

Question: if Donald trump has 57 dollars and he spends 26 dollars and the cashier guy gives him 36 cents back, how much money does he have?


Question: You have found a mutant algae that doubles in size every hour. It takes 18 hours for one algae plant to take up half of a certain lake.

How long would it take for two of these plants to take up half of the same lake?

Rat maze (medium)

Question: A rat is placed at the beginning of a maze and must make it to the end. There are four paths at the start that he has an equal chance of taking: path A takes 5 minutes and leads to the end, path B takes 8 minutes and leads to the start, path C takes 3 minutes and leads to the end, and path D takes 2 minutes and leads to the start.

What is the expected amount of time it will take for the rat to finish the maze?

Question: this is a 6 digit number. this number has two decimal places. there are no tenths or tens in this number. the tenths digit plus the hundredth digit equals 6. if you divide the thousands digit by 2 the answer is 2. the hundreds digit is the same as today's date. the units digit is half the hundredths unit.

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?