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One day on reaching school I found there were a total of 16 bicycles and tricycles parked in the school compound. I counted the total number of wheels to be 38. Find out the number of bicycles.
10 bicycles. Explanation:: All the cycles will have at least 2 wheels, so 16 cycles will have 16x2=32 wheels. But in total there are 38 wheels. So the extra wheels (38-32=6) must be of the tricycles because bicycles have 2 wheels and tricycles have 3 wheels. Therefore, the number of tricycles parked is 6 and hence the number of bicycles is 10.

Sam's son is the brother of the only sister of Andrew. Dorothy, the only daughter of Sam, has only two brothers. What is the relation between Sam and Andrew?
Sam is Andrew's father.

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

Swap one letter from each of the words "Right" and "Blight" to make two related words.
Light and Bright.

How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
12. There are 12 2-cent stamps in a dozen!

What gets broken without being held?
A promise.

What is at the end of a rainbow?
The letter W.

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

Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die.

. At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet. At the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep. Who am I?

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