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Question: You work at a factory that produces dumbbell weights for lifting. One of the 10 machines has been producing weights that are always 1 pound less than the rest of the machines. You have a large scale used to weigh the weights for quality control. How could you find the defective machine by using the scale only once? You are allowed to make as many weights with the machines as you please.

Answer: From each machine you make a different number of weights and however many pounds the scale is off from what it should be corresponds to the machine that made that many weights.

From machine 1 you make 1 weight, machine 2 you make 2 weights...

If the machine is off by 1 pound you know it was machine 1 that was off.

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Question: If you have an 11 minute and 13 minute hourglass, how can you accurately time 15 minutes?

Answer: Start both hourglasses then when the 11 minute hourglass has finished immediately flip it again. When the 13 minute hourglass runs out the 11 minute hourglass will have 9 minutes left, so flip it and it will last another 2 minutes, 13 minutes + 2 minutes = 15 minutes.

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Question: On a clock, how many times a day do the minute and hour hand overlap?

Answer: 22 times: 12:00:00, 1:05:27, 2:10:55, 3:16:22, 4:21:49, 5:27:16, 6:32:44, 7:38:11, 8:43:38, 9:49:05, 10:54:33. Each twice a day.

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Question: There are three boxes labeled "Apples", "Oranges", and "Apples and oranges". Each box has the wrong label on it. How could you correctly label all three of the boxes by taking only one piece of fruit fruit from one of the boxes?

Answer: A piece of fruit would be taken from the "Apples and oranges" box. Since this is the wrong label you know whatever fruit you draw from this box is all the same and you can give that box the proper label. Since all of the boxes started out wrong you know that the last box with its original label is wrong and can be labeled "Apples and oranges". From here you can just put the final label on the final box.

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Question: You have a glass of water that looks about half full. How can you tell, only using the glass of water itself, if the glass is half full or not?

The glass is a right cylinder.

Answer: Tip the glass of water until the water reaches the rim of the glass and if the water lines up perfectly with the bottom rim of the glass, it is half full.

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Question: There is a chain nailed to the wall. The chain is 10 feet long and the center of the chain dips down 5 feet from where each side of the chain is nailed to the wall. How far are the 2 ends of chain from each other?

Answer: Both ends are nailed with the same nail. In order for the 10 foot chain to dip down 5 feet it must dip 5 feet down and 5 feet up, totaling the length of the chain.

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Question: You are a surgeon who has to perform 3 operations today, but you only have 2 pairs of gloves (a and b) to perform the operations. Each of the people you are performing surgery on are infectious so you cannot touch any of them or their bodily fluids and they can't touch each other's bodily fluids. How do you perform all 3 operations with only 2 pairs of gloves?

Answer: You put pair a on and put pair b on top of pair a and perform 1 surgery. You then remove pair b and perform another surgery. Finally you take pair b and put it over pair a inside out and perform the final surgery.

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Question: Can you rearrange the letters in new door to make one word?

Answer: Yes, it's an anagram. 'New door' and 'one word' contain the same letters.

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Question: A man has 3 children and half of them are girls, how is this possible?

Answer: They are all girls (technically 2 or 3 must be girls).

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Question: If 1/2 of 5 is 3, then what is 1/3 of 10?

Answer: 4 (think proportions).

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