Answers to the Ministry Trick of the Month - Math Cramps
1. The harmonica cost $1.05, the pencil cost .05. Perhaps you thought that the harmonica cost $1.00, and the pencil cost .10, but then the harmonica would cost .90 more than the pencil. To cost a dollar more, the harmonica must cost $1.05, and the pecil .05, because $1.05 minus .05 = $1.00.
2. Twenty-nine snips. The last two inches are divided by one snip.
3. Farmer Brown originally had 3 watermelons. He sold half of them, (1 1/2) plus a half a melon, which is the same as saying he sold two melons, leaving him with one whole melon, ast stated.
4. If you took 3 apples, you would HAVE 3 apples!
5. $13,212. (12,000 + 1,200 + 12 = 13,212)