Originally Posted by: dvenetian1) A farmer died and left his 17 cows to be divided between his three sons.
The oldest was to receive 1/2 of the stock
The middle son got 1/3
and the youngest got 1/9
How many cows did each son get?

2) How can you take one away from twenty-nine and end up with thirty?

3) A long street has 100 buildings that are numbered from 1 thru 100.
How many 9's are used in numbering the buildings?

4) A Fruit stand sells apples for $1 each. Each apple is wrapped in a special gold wrapper. You can then trade in 3 gold wrappers for 1 apple. If you had $15 to spend, How many apples can you get altogether?

Sorry Magic..............................
Congrats Earthman... 1,2 and 3 are correct!!!!!! I'm impressed......
Look at your last sentence in #4 and remember 1 apple also awards 1 shiny gold wrapper toward the leftovers.......
These were some of my tougher riddles, or so I thought. I'm gonna have to dig deeper into the vault since you aced three of my four beauties!!!!!!!!!!
Sharp.....;;..