Three women - Joan, Dana, and Sandy - have among them three children - Sam, Traci, and David. Sam likes to play with Dana's son. Sandy occasionally baby-sits for Joan's children. Who is Traci's mother?
Joan
In the Smith family, there are 7 sisters and each sister has 1 brother. If you count Mr. Smith, how many males are there in the Smith family?
Two (the father and the brother)
A father and his son get in a car accident. The father is sent to one hospital, and the son is sent to another. When the doctor comes in to operate on the son, the doctor says, "I cannot operate on him. He is my son." How can that be?
The doctor is the mother.
Yesterday I went to the zoo and saw the giraffes and ostriches. Altogether they had 30 eyes and 44 legs. How many animals were there?
15 (30 eyes, each animal has 2 eyes = 30/2)
A child playing on the beach has 6 sand piles in one area and 3 in another. If he put them all together, how many sand piles would he have?
One
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