Try to answer each of the following questions. Be sure to read
them carefully.
1. Why are 2002 pennies worth more than twenty dollars?
2. Juanita's grandmother is only five years older than
her mother. How is this possible?
3. Mr. Jones and his son Greg were in a terrible automobile accident. Mr Jones died at the scene, but Greg was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. When the ambulance arrived at the emergency room, the surgeon took one look at Greg and said, "I can't operate on this boy, he's my son." How do you explain this?
4. The trip up
to the mountains took an hour and twenty minutes, but the trip back down, only
took eighty minutes. How come?
5. Farmer Fran has four white sheep, three black sheep, and one brown sheep at her farm. How many sheep can say they are the same color as another sheep at the farm?