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No-ones going to do that, but if you ask your maths teachers they will explain the puzzle to you.

To think I scored a distinction in my finance module. Shows how education is so devalued these days. I'm off to buy an abacus.

:lolol: Shall we start the list... You'd be surprised how many come up with the wrong answer.

No, and I don't think they would put anything against you either.

jimbob5 Think of a number under ten. Now double the number. Add 4 Now half the number you have Now take away the number you first thought of. You're answer is 2 That's a new one for you to work on.

'When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.........'

Okay. After this I have to update a set of limited company accounts. Thankfully that will be easier. They have paid £10 each (£30) The waiter comes back with £5, saying it is really £25 they should have paid. Take £2, they say. He replies ''Thanks''. One of the diners says "So that means we...

No, it's £8.33 each as £5 was returned, being as the bill was really £25. They then give him the tip. The extra money you speak of has been refunded to the diners as loose change, it is not part of the calculation of payment.

No, they got £5 back. Making it £25. They then gave him a £2 tip. That works out at an equivalent of £9 each (including tip).