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

Find the next number in the series?
2, 12, 36, 80, 150, 252, 392, _ ?

Two boys wish to cross a river. The only way to get to the other side is by boat, but that boat can only take one boy at a time. The boat cannot return on its own, there are no ropes or similar tricks, yet both boys manage to cross using the boat.

How?

A man is approaching a broad and barren land. He has a package with him. If somehow, he is unable to open the package before reaching the land, he will die.

Can you guess what is present in the package?

Irene killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?

I know a ten-letter word in the English language which can be typed using only the top rows of the computer keyboard.

If a shopkeeper can only place the weights on one side of the common balance. For example, if he has weights 1 and 3 then he can measure 1, 3 and 4 only. Now the question is how many minimum weights and names of the weights you will need to measure all weights from 1 to 1000? This is a fairly simple problem and very easy to prove also.

What does below pictogram mean?

The more you take me, the more you leave me behind.
Who Am I?

I have two coins.
* One of the coins is a faulty coin having a tail on both sides of it.
* The other coin is a perfect coin (heads on side and tail on other).

I blindfold myself and pick a coin and put the coin on the table. The face of the coin towards the sky is the tail.

What is the probability that another side is also tail?