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Riddle: A car's odometer shows 72927 miles, a palindromic number. What are the minimum miles you would need to travel to form another?

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Answer: 110 miles. (73037)

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Riddle: A clock chimes 5 times in 4 seconds. How many times will it chime in 10 seconds?

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Answer: 11 times. It chimes at zero and then once every second for 10 seconds

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Riddle: A certain number has three digits. The sum of the three digits equals 36 times this number. Seven times the left digit plus 9 is equal to 5 times the sum of the two other digits. 8 times the second digit minus 9 is equal to the sum of the first and third. What is the number?

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Answer: This one is fairly easy - 324 is the answer

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Riddle: There are 10 dogs in a yard. 3 go out, 4 run behind a tree, and 2 jump in the hole. How many are left?

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Answer: 10, because none of them left the yard.

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Riddle: There are four girls, and four apples in a basket. Every girl takes an apple, Yet one apple remains in the basket. How is this possible?

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Answer: One girl took the basket. She took the last apple while it was in the basket.

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Riddle: A new medical building containing 100 offices had just been completed. Mark was hired to paint the numbers 1 to 100 on the doors. How many times will Mark have to paint the number nine?

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Answer: The answer is 20! 9, 19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99.

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