(معما) Easy Math Riddles with Answers

If you take 3 apples from a group of 5, how many do you have?

Answer: Three - you just took them yourself!
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How many eggs can you put in an empty basket one foot in diameter?

Answer: Only one egg, because after that the basket doesn't remain empty any more!

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Why is the longest human nose on record is only 11 inches long?
Answer: Because then it wouldn't be a nose any more; it would become a foot! (12 inches and above - easy!)

Add 2 to 200 four times? What do you have?
Answer: 202, 202, 202, 202
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I'm there once in a minute, twice in a moment but never in a thousand years. Who am I?
Answer: The letter M!
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The Man at St. Ives is one of the oldest riddles in history, check it out.
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits;
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Answer: Only the narrator has said anything about going to St. Ives, not anyone else!


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