How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550 ?

Alex is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.

There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.

How can the Alex survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)

You are provided with a grid (as shown in the picture). Can you fill the squares with numbers 1-8 in a manner that none of the two consecutive numbers are placed next to each other in any direction (vertically, horizontally or diagonally?)

When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?

f you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

What's the next in the series?

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?

On a bus, there is a 26-year-old pregnant lady.
A 30-year-old policeman.
A 52-year-old random woman.
And the 65-year-old driver.

Who is the youngest?

Replace the question mark with the correct number, given the pair of numbers exhibits a similar relationship?

? : 3839 :: 11 : 1209

Can you find the missing number in the third row?
35 20 14
27 12 18
5 2 ?

Solve the mathematical equation in the picture below.