Peter has 49 blue marbles and one red marble. How many marbles must Peter remove so that 90% of his marbles are blue ?

The perimeter of the rectangle ABCD is 30 cm. Three other rectangles are placed so that their centres are at the points A, B and D ( see the figure ). Th sum of their perimeters is 20 cm. What is the total length of the thick line ?

Tim, Tom and Jim are triplets ( three brothers born on the same day), while their brother Carl is 3 years younger. Which of the following numbers could be the sum of the ages of the four brothers ? ( All ages are rounded to a whole year )

Jennifer bought enough cat food for her four cats to last for 12 days. On her way home she bought back two stray cats. If she gives each cat the same amount of food every day, how many days will the cat food last ?

Bart is getting his haircut. When he looks in the mirror, the clock on the wall behind him looks like this:

What would he have seen if he had looked in the mirror ten minutes earlier ?

The number 2581953764 is written on a strip of paper. John cuts the strip twice and gets three numbers. Then he adds these 3 numbers. What is the smallest possible sum he can get ?

There are 30 studens in a class. They sit in pairs so that each boy is sitting with a girl, and exactly half of the girls are sitting with a boy. How many boys are there in the class ?

Five squirrels A, B, C, D and E are sitting on the line. There are 6 nuts on the line as well ( marked by “x” ). At the same time, and all with the same speed, the squirrels start running to the nearest nut to them. As soon as a squirrel picks a nut it starts running to the next closest nut. Which squirrel will get two nuts ?

Mary, Ann, and Nata work in a kindergaten class. Each day from Monday to Friday exactly two of them come to work. Mary works 3 days per week and Ann works 4 days per week. How many days per week does Nata work ?

Four points A, B, C and D are given on aline, in some order, so that AB = 1, BC = 2. CD = 3, and DA = 4. Which two points are the farthest from each other ?

The piece of paper below is folded along the dotted lines to make an open box.

The box is out on a table with the top open. Which letter is at the bottom of the box ?

On the left side of the room, Bea and Pia are sleeping with their heads on their pillows facings each other. On the right side of the room, Mary and Karen are sleeping with their pillows with their backs to each other. How many girls are sleeping with their right ear on their pillow ?

Tom and John build rectangular boxes using the same number of udentical cubes.

Tom’s box looks like this: 

The first level of John’s box looks like this: 

How many levels will John’s box have ?

Alice’s mother wants to see a knife on the right side of each plate and a fork on the left side. What is the least number of exchanges of a knife and a fork does Alice need to make in order to please her mother ?

Cathy draws a square of area 100 cm². She joins the midpoints of the sides to make a smaller square. What is the area of the smaller square ?