Money IN/Money OUT Use Your Noodle or Lose Your Money

1. Take two apples from three apples and what do you have?


2. If you had only one match and entered a room in which there were a kerosene lamp, an oil heater and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?


3. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep did he have left?


4. Two U.S. coins total 55 cents in value. One is not a nickel. What are the two coins?


5. Two men are playing checkers. They played five games and each man won the same number of games. There were no ties. How can this be?


6. There are 12 one-cent stamps in a dozen, but how many two- cent stamps are there in a dozen?


7. Should you say "nine and eight IS sixteen" or "nine and eight ARE sixteen"?


8. How many apples can you put into an empty basket?


9. A store display features: GOLDFISH STARTER SET regularly $39.99 on sale for $29.99. And, if you choose, you can have the sale price and make four monthly payments of only $9.99.

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_{North Carolina State University
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
Family & Consumer Sciences Department}