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1. There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite

logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on

the ground.

2. A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches

the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180

cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour.

When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?

3. Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the

same month and year and yet they’re not twins.

How can this be?

4. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.

5. I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What is this object?

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