How can half of 12 be 7 riddle

Question: I'm 10 years old my brothers half my age now I'm years old how old is my brother now? Answer: A microwave. Generally when you run a microwave for '99' it runs for 1 minute and 39 seconds. Question: You have a glass of water that looks about half full. How can you tell, only using the glass of water itself, if the glass is half full or not? The glass is a right cylinder. Answer: Tip the glass of water until the water reaches the rim of the glass and if the water lines up perfectly with the bottom rim of the glass, it is half full.

Question: There is a 5 gallon and a 3 gallon box. You also have a hose with unlimited water. How are you gonna make the 5 gallon have 4 gallons using your items? You do not know the exact measure measurements of a gallon. Answer: You fill the five gallon up and pour it into the 3 gallon. The dump the 3 gallon out and pour what was left in the 5 gallon into the 3 gallon so that you have 2 gallons in the 3 gallon. Then fill the 5 gallon up and pour it into the 3 gallon to fill it up.

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Learn more. How to cut 12 in half and get 7 Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 9 months ago. Active 5 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 17k times. Hint only if you're stumped : Don't let just regular numerals control you Another Hint Notice that I didn't use the math tag. Improve this question. Quark 6, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I'm pretty sure that's what Quark's answer is facetiously alluding to. Improve this answer.

Daniil Agashiyev Daniil Agashiyev 1, 10 10 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Alexander Craggs 3 3 bronze badges. Trang Oul 5 5 bronze badges. Quark Quark 6, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges. And what happens to the extra part of the one? Still, nice one!