July 29th, 2015

Today's Question - Cliff has a young dog that is full of energy. Cliff takes him for a long walk in the woods. Cliff walks at a steady 5 miles per hour. When they are 10 miles from home, Cliff takes the leash off and both head for home. The dog runs at a steady 12 mph. When he hits home, he races back to Cliff then back home. The dog keeps racing back and forth till Cliff reaches home. How far did the dog run from the time he was unleashed?

Reveal Answer Answer - Forget all the turns. Cliff took two hours to get back home. Therefore, the dog was racing at 12 miles per hour for two hours. Thus, the dog covered 24 miles. \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments July 30, 2015 Page 3 of 3

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July 28th, 2015

Today’s Question - That's quite a collection you have. What is the name for the following hobbies: A) Stamp Collecting; B) Coin Collecting; C) Butterfly Collecting; D) Bee Keeping??

Reveal Answer Answer - The hobbyists are: A) Philatelist; B) Numismatist; C) Lepidopterist; D) Apiarist

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July 27th, 2015

Today's Question - I think you used too much yeast. Todd noticed something strange when he went to pick up a birthday cake for his little pal Al, whose birthday is today? Gretzinger the baker also makes magical rolls. He puts the dough in a special pan in which rises every hour to a size from which he can cut the new dough into three clumps equal to the original clump. If he puts the seed clump in the pan at 3:00 p.m. and returns to find the pan just full at 7:00 p.m. - at what time was the pan only one third full? 0.6% N.A. 50.0 94.1

Reveal Answer Answer - If the dough trebles in size every hour, the pan would have been one third full exactly one hour before it filled.

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July 24th, 2015

Today's Question - Bob the street corner hustler is down to his last two "Super Salad Choppers." He had been selling them for 18 dollars apiece. To hurry the sale he offered two for $31. He told his partner that would give him exactly the profit he made on each of the earlier single sales. How much did each chopper cost Bob?

Reveal Answer Answer (Yes there was enough information) - If Bob was going to sell his final two choppers for $31, and that would give him the same profit as sales of single choppers for $18 - the answer was simple. Assume he was selling one of the two choppers for $18 (thus making his usual profit). That would mean he was selling the other one at no profit (thus at cost). So $31 minus $18 (cost + profit) = $13 (Bob's cost).

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July 23rd, 2015

Today's Question – Jim, Bo and the retirement party raiders hit the buffet table early. They noticed there were five fried shrimp for every four "pigs in a blanket". Among them the boys gobbled 16 each. They then noticed that there were three shrimp to every two blankets. How many of each were there when the boys first arrived?

Reveal Answer \x0c Cashin\xe2\x80\x99s Comments July 24, 2015 Page 3 of 3 Answer - There were 40 fried shrimp and 32 pigs in a blanket before the galloping gourmands got there.

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July 22nd, 2015

Today's Question - The ladies of the choir arranged an overnight bus trip to a nearby resort. The total cost for the choir was $2,040. Everyone was to pay an equal amount but then 4 ladies dropped out and that meant the rest had to each pay $17 more. How many ladies are in the choir (including the four who stayed home)?

Reveal Answer Answer \xe2\x80\x93 The choir has 24 ladies who were scheduled to pay $85 apiece. When four dropped out, the remainder paid a total of $102 apiece.

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July 14th, 2015

Today's Question - During Happy Hour.....er make that during an informal post close business review - Ted, Frank and "the Deuce" began nibbling on Buffalo Wings. Frank loves them and had 4 times as many as "the Deuce" who ate twice as many as Ted. The bartender.....er waiter told them they had eaten 66 wings. How many did each have?? There will be no Comments Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Monday. Everything From Medical Tests to Computer Replacement

Reveal Answer Answer - The buffalo wing thing went as follows: Frank had 48, \xe2\x80\x9cthe Deuce\xe2\x80\x9d had 12, and Ted only had 6.

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June 30th, 2015

Today's Question - Take the word RIGHTNESS, add the letter O, and rearrange all the letters to name something to wear. Hint: It usually comes in pairs. What is it? R I G H T N E S S + O = _________________________ NO COMMENTS NEXT WEEK WONDER WOMAN ON A VERY SPECIAL MISSION

Reveal Answer Answer - What's next: 1; 2; 3; 7; 22; ____? / 155 (number times previous number and add one).

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June 23rd, 2015

Today's Question - Larry the Loop is a volunteer fireman (well almost). He took time out from checking fire extinguishers to consider the following question - You're pulling my leg - If two boys and a girl can beat their father in a tug-of-war, but their mother can win against a boy and two girls, who should win a contest between the father and a girl against the mother and a boy?

Reveal Answer Answer - If the muffin costs one dollar less than the fixings and the whole thing costs $1.20, then the muffin costs a dime.

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June 22nd, 2015

Today's Question - Next week - training wheels. Paul has borrowed his daughter's tricycle to train for the Wall Street Iron Man Decathlon. He must go 1000 miles (over several weeks of course). He has two spare tires. He intends to have each of the five tires go the same distance. How many miles does each tire go?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - Each tire would go 600 miles. There are various rotational patterns you could use but - if three tires went the whole 1000 miles that would be 3000 "tire miles". So five tires divided into 3000 equals 600 miles.

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June 16th, 2015

Today's Question - Using only the number 9 four times, can you write an equation that equals 20. (Hint to make it easy - fractions allowed.)

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - Words that begin and end with the same three letters were:

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June 15th, 2015

Today's Question - If a crab and a half weigh a pound and a half, but the half crab weighs half as much again as the whole crab, what do half the whole crab and the whole of the half crab weigh?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - First let\'s repeat the question - If a crab and a half weigh a pound and a half, but the half crab weighs half as much again as the whole crab, what do half the whole crab and the whole of the half crab weigh? Okay - so - The "whole crab" must weigh 0.6 pounds, and the "half crab" 0.9 pounds, totaling 1 1/2 pounds. If the former were halved and the latter doubled, the weights would then be 0.3 and 1.8 pounds, totaling 2.1 pounds.

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June 11th, 2015

Today's Question - Better get a designated driver - Timmy is taking cough medicine that is "3% alcohol". How many teaspoons would he have to swallow to have consumed a whole teaspoon of alcohol? NO COMMENTS FRIDAY Wonder Woman on a special mission And without the brains of the operation, I'll take the day off.

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - It was so simple everyone was trying to find "a hook". Timmy would need to take 33 1/3 teaspoons of 3% alcohol to get the equivalent of 1 teaspoon of 100% alcohol.

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June 10th, 2015

Today's Question - Jack Doe will tell you that he has quite a collection of classic cars. When asked to describe them he says all but 2 are Pierce Arrows, all but 2 are Rolls Silver Clouds and all but 2 are Duisenbergs. How many cars in the collection.

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - Jack Doe's car collection had but 3 cars (one of each).

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June 9th, 2015

Today's Question - Bob's son, Robert, came home from school with a puzzle. The sum of his age and his fathers was 55, and their ages were reversed. How old was Robert?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - Robert was 14. Bob was 41.

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June 8th, 2015

Today's Question - I'll take the bamboo backscratcher with Elvis on it. Alan took a trip to the Jersey Shore to play skeeball. He has to bowl the balls into one of 3 concentric hoops. The hoops are worth 9, 13, or 17 points apiece. What is the fewest balls Alan must bowl to get a score of 84?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - Alan would need at least 8 balls to score an 84 (either 5 nines and 3 thirteens or 6 nines, 1 thirteen and 1 seventeen).

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June 5th, 2015

Today's Question - I'm thinking of a number. If I give you some clues, can you guess what it is? The number has 2 digits. If you doubled the digit on the left and then subtracted the right digit, the result would be "6". If you reversed the digits of the original number, the new number would be 9 larger than the original. What is the original 2 digit number?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - The number in question should be "78".

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June 4th, 2015

Today’s Question – What am I, a Rockette? There are several starlets dancing in a line. Two starlets dance on the right of another. Two starlets dance on the left of another. One starlet dances with a starlet on each side. What is the minimum number of dancing starlets to make this work?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - There were three starlets (L, M, R). Thus \xe2\x80\x9cR\xe2\x80\x9d had two on the left, \xe2\x80\x9cL\xe2\x80\x9d had two on her right and \xe2\x80\x9cM\xe2\x80\x9d had one on each side.

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June 3rd, 2015

Today's Question - Hiding in the brush - Find the animal in each word group (Example: BRAZE = ZEBRA) A) Flow; B) Popish; C) Paroled; D) Corona; E) Rootiest

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - to hidden animals: flow = wolf; popish = hippos; paroled = leopard; rootiest = tortoise.

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June 2nd, 2015

Today' Question – If I have as many brothers as sisters but my brother has twice as many sisters as brothers – am I a boy or a girl and how many kids in the family?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer \xe2\x80\x93 The riddler would be one of the sisters and there would be 7 children \xe2\x80\x93 4 sisters, 3 brothers.

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June 1st, 2015

Today's Question - What two numbers come next in this series: 1, 4, 13, 28, 49, ___, ___?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - The next two numbers in the series: 1, 4, 13, 28, 49 would be 76, 109.

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May 29th, 2015

Today's Question - You are on an island where there are only liars and truth-tellers, and they look and sound alike. You are on a dangerous journey, because there is a fork in the road that can lead either to quicksand or to safety. When you arrive at the fork, the signpost is gone but there are two men standing there. You know that you can ask only one question of only one man. What question can you ask either of them that will tell you which road is safe?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - (To best understand, assume the two roads are "A" and "B" - with "B" leading to quicksand.) You would ask one of them what road would the other man tell you was "the safe one." Then you would choose the opposite of whatever that answer was. Thus the "liar" would claim the other would point you to "B" (quicksand). But the other would truthfully point out that the "lair" would direct you to "B" (quicksand). Either way the answer would be quicksand and you should do the opposite.

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May 28th, 2015

Today's Question - "My average beats your average" - Sal and Paul were having a debate. Paul advertises that 77.5% of his clients made money. Assuming his stocks split but his clients don't, what is the smallest number of client's he needs to make that work? Part II - What if it was 76.8%?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - To get a 77.5% rate of return Paul would need to benefit 31 of 40 clients. For a rate of 76.8% he would need 96 out of 125.

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May 27th, 2015

Today's Question - B.J. was arrested when he claimed that he could identify the real murderers because he saw them when the bright full moon came up at 10:00 p.m. Where did he slip up?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - The full moon rises at sunset (or it couldn't be full).

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May 26th, 2015

Today's Question - B.J. was arrested when he claimed that he could identify the real murderers because he saw them when the bright full moon came up at 10:00 p.m. Where did he slip up?

Reveal Answer Corner Answer - Since Paul traveled half the distance, he should pay one third of the expense. (What??) Assume that Lenny lived 30 miles from town his round trip was 60 miles. Paul's round trip was 30 miles. So Lenny should pay twice as much as Paul since he drove twice as far.

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