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Tim came second in Math. When his mother asked him how much he had scored, he answered that he got the sum of the first 9 even numbers. His mother immediately worked out the answer. How much had he scored in Math?
90 Explanation: Sum = (n x n) + n Hence, 9 x 9 = 81 + 9 = 90

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

I am so fragile that even if anybody says my name I break. Who am I?

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

A woman met one of her classmates after 20 long years. After exchanging pleasantries, the first woman told the other that she has 4 children, half of them female. At this, the other woman smiled and replied, even half of her children too are female. However, she has 3 children. How is this possible?
The second woman has all female children.

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

What has an eye but can not see?

I cannot speak but I tell everything. I am not a tree but I have leaves. I have hinges but I am neither a door nor a window. Who am I?

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

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