Five Apples

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?

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November 25th, 2009 | Category: Mathematical |  Email This Riddle

4 guesses to Five Apples

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• Paul

  November 25, 2009 at 4:04 AM

  Give the four tallest kids an apple, keep one in the basket and send the shortest kid home, telling him that “little babies Neapolitans should stay at home where their Mommies can feed them apple sauce because their little shrimpy baby teeth aren’t able to bite into a whole apple.”

• Dude

  November 25, 2009 at 4:11 PM

  Wow … where do I begin? . . . Nope! Try again.

• Geoff

  November 27, 2009 at 2:29 PM

  Give four kids an apple and give the fifth kid an apple in a basket.

• Dude

  November 27, 2009 at 6:12 PM

  You’re right, Geoff.

  You’re today’s winner!