What is both possible and impossible at the same time?

Find the next number in the series

12, 20, 40, 72, 116, 172 ?

People put me on the table and cut me but do not eat me. What am I?

A father is locked up in jail. His wife has gone bankrupt. Their male child has to sell his hotel in order to gain some money. Yet their girl child does not care and is quite happy.

How can someone be so rude?

I am a type of word that is spelt incorrectly or used differently, on purpose for humour. What am I?
Hint 1: You can find me in a joke.
Hint 2: I am a play on words.

I throw two dice simultaneously.

What is the probability of getting a sum as 9 of the two numbers shown?

You have to put a letter on the following to make it a meaningful word. The only challenge is that you can't use 'E'.

S E Q U E N C _

Forwards I am heavy, backward I am not. What am I?

Do You See It?

He does not have any heart but still, He manages to live.
If you kill him, you will eventually die but yet you kill him.
He cannot run, who is He?