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A Bat & Ball costs £1.10p. The bat costs £1 more than the ball.
How much does the Ball cost?
A farmer has 24 crows in his field and so takes aim with his shotgun and shoots 4 birds.
How many are left in the field?
Three friends share a meal at a restaurant. The bill comes to £30.
They divide it equally, paying ten pounds each.
But the waiter realises he's made a mistake and should have charged £25.
He gives the friends five pounds back. They decide to take one pound each and give the waiter a £2 tip.
So each person ends up paying £9 and the waiter keeps £2, making £29 in total.
What happened to the missing £1?
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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." - Unknown
How to Give Your Cat a Pill by Peggy Althoff
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.
Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
I was doing some decorating, so I got out my step-ladder. I don't get on with my real ladder.
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston ByPass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
well I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names. But one day I turned to my bullies and said - 'Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me', and it worked! From there on it was sticks and stones all the way.
My Dad used to say 'always fight fire with fire', which is probably why he got thrown out of the fire brigade.
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, Six should be enough."
If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither.
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, it's hard to believe that we've lived as long as we have...
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Our cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cupboards, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No mobile phones!
We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were ACCIDENTS. No one was to blame, but us. Remember accidents?
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games, 65 channels on pay TV, video tape movies, surround sound, personal mobile phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went round to their homes and talked to them.
We ate patty cakes, bread and butter, and drank cordial, but we were never overweight ... because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and although we were told it would happen, we hardly ever 'put someone's eye out with that!
Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat it. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. Parents actually SIDED with the law against us!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility. We learned how to deal with it all.
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids - before lawyers and government regulated our lives.
1. The ball costs 5p and not possibly what you thought, 10p.
Don't forget, the bat costs £1 more than the ball, so if the ball is 5p, the bat at £1 more is £1.05, hence the total is £1.10p
2. 4! All dead ones as the others flew away at the sound of the gun shot!
3. There is no missing pound.
You don't add the £2 to the £27 they've paid because the £2 is already included in that £27 - The £2 features twice.
The actual sum is the £27 plus the £3 they got back, which brings you to the original £30.
The premise of the question is false!