If 10 bags of jelly beans and 6 licorice sticks cost $1 and 10 licorice sticks and 6 jelly bean bags cost 92 cents how much does one licorice stick cost?
Answer
5 cents. Jelly bean bags cost 7 cents.
More Math Riddles
FACETIOUSLY has the six vowels
The word FACETIOUSLY contains the six vowels A-E-I-O-U and Y in their alphabetical order. Can you find another English word that does the same?
The word is abstemiously. There may be others.
The Patern?
One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number. What is the patern?
One has three letters in the word three has five letters in it five has four letters and four has four letters in it (if you try more numbers they will always come back to the number four: so four is the magic number)
