{"id":416,"date":"2013-08-10T18:25:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=416"},"modified":"2013-08-10T18:25:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T18:25:31","slug":"riddles-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Riddles 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Questions\"<\/a>1. Say my name and you break me. What am I?<\/p>\n

2. If an electric train is travelling one hundred miles per hour in a westerly direction, and the wind is blowing from the north, in which direction will the smoke blow?<\/p>\n

3. Who can jump higher than a house?<\/p>\n

4. Two fathers and two sons went fishing. Each person caught a fish and yet only three fish were caught. How is this possible?<\/p>\n

5. What gets larger the more you take away?<\/p>\n

\"Answers\"<\/a>
\nAnswers:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

1. Silence.<\/p>\n

2. There is no smoke from an electric train.<\/p>\n

3. Anyone who can jump can jump higher than a house since a house can\u2019t jump.<\/p>\n

4. Only three people went fishing \u2013 a boy, his father and his grandfather. This makes two fathers and two sons from just three people.<\/p>\n

5. A hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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