Riddles on Numbers

1 When do elephants have 8 feet?

2 What has 4 legs and only 1 foot?

3 What is alive and has only 1 foot?

4 What has 100 legs but cannot walk?

5 What has 4 legs and flies? (Hint: it's not a dead horse!)

6 What coin doubles in value when half is deducted?

7 What is the difference between a new penny and an old quarter?

8 If you can buy eight eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?

9 Why should you never mention the number 288 in front of anyone?

10 Where can you buy a ruler that is 3 feet long?

11 How many times can you subtract 6 from 30?

12 What number can you subtract half from to obtain a result that is zero?

13 How can half of 12 be 7?

Answers:

1 'When there are 2 of them
2 ' A bed
3 ' A leg
4 '50 pairs of pants
5 '2 pairs of pants
6 'A half dollar
7 '24 cents
8 'eight
9 'Because it is too gross - 2 times 144 which is a gross.
10 ' At a yard sale
11 ' Only once, after that it is no longer 30.
12 'The number 8 - made up of 2 zeros one on top of the other.
13 'When the 12 is a Roman numeral - XII. Cut off the top half and you get VII.