A man recently bought two aeroplanes, but afterwards found that they would not answer the purpose for which he wanted them. So he sold them for $600 each, making a loss of 20 percent on one machine and a profit of 20 percent on the other. Did he make a profit on the whole transaction, or a loss? And how much?
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Pear Tree
There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears. But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How is this possible?
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What We Caught, We Threw Away
Two fishermen posed a riddle to the Greek poet Homer: What we caught, we threw away; what we didn’t catch, we kept. What did we keep? Homer could not solve the riddle. Can you solve it?
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As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. How is this possible?
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