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Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin.

How many times is the alphabet "a" used while writing the spelling of each number from 1 to 500?
Not a single time.

Find the missing number: 6 13 25 51 101 ?
203 Explanation: 6x2+1=13 13x2-1=25 25x2+1=51 51x2-1=101 101x2+1=203

I am a 5 letter word. Take away my first and last letter, I will remain same. If you also take away my middle letter, I will remain same. Who am I?

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

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

I reach for the sky, but clutch to the ground; sometimes I leave, but I am always around. What am I?

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

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