Questions

1.  Which is correct to say: "seven and five is thirteen" or "seven and five are thirteen"?

2.  A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law.  How come?

3.  I am looking at somebody's photo.  Who is it I am looking at, if I don't have any brothers or sisters and the father of that man on the photo is the son of my father?

4.  You have 5 apples in a basket and you want to give 5 boys one apple each.  How can you divide them up so that one apple remains in the basket?

5.  How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't hit anything, there is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it?

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Solutions

1.  Neither - the sum of seven and five is twelve.

2.  She was walking.

3.  I am looking at my son.

4.  Four boys get one apple, one boy gets one apple in a basket.

5.  Throw it straight up into the air.