Name one eight-letter word with 'kst' in the middle, 'in' the beginning, 'and' at the end.?

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A California farmer owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner calls the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to buy. The farmer knows the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?

You have 1023 apples and 10 bags. You have to distribute these apples in these 10 bags in any way you choose. But when I ask for a certain number of apples you have to give them in terms of bags without transferring the apples from other bags. How do you distribute the apples?

In a family supper, a grandfather, a grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one daughter-in-law, and one mother-in-law need to sit at a table.

There are only seven chairs available at the place. How many more chairs do they have to borrow so that everyone can sit down together for the suppers if everybody requires a separate chair?

When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?

If an electric train is travelling south, then which way is the smoke going?

Solve the alphametic puzzle by replacing the alphabet with the number.

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It is raining today at 11:59 am. What is the probability of sunny weather after 72 hours?

I make a loud sound when I’m changing. When I do change, I get bigger but weigh less. What am I?