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    Problem solving skills
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  • You are a runner in a race. Just before crossing the finishing line you overtake the person in third place! What place did you finish in?
    Third place.
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  • How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two metres by three metres by four metres?
    None! There is no dirt in a hole.
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  • A worker at a butcher shop stands 1.8 metres tall and wears size 8 shoes. What does he weigh?
    Meat. He is a butcher anyway.
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  • Which is correct to say, 'The yolk of the egg is white' or 'The yolk of the egg are white'?
    Neither. Egg yolks are yellow!
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  • I do not have any special powers but I can predict the score of any basketball game before it begins. How can I do this?
    The score before any games begin is always zero to zero!
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  • John's mother has four children. She named the first April, the second May, and the third, June. What is the name of the fourth child?
    John.
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  • A plane crashes on the border of China and India. Where do they bury the survivors?
    No where. They don't bury the survivors.
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  • Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
    Mt. Everest was still the highest mountain in the world.
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  • A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, 'Brothers and sisters, I have none. That man's father is my father's son.' Who was in the photo?
    His son.
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  • What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never speaks, has a head but never thinks, and has a bed but never sleeps?
    A river.
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