What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

What is the word or phrase below?
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A detective visits his friend John just to discover that John's neighbour Dr Jacob was murdered. Dr Jacob, who is a mathematician wrote the murderer's name in a code word "Hcqtfz". There were five suspects
1. Ajit
2. Pankaj
3. Ganpat
4. Deenu
5. Hariya

The Detective was instantly able to find the murderer.
Can you?

If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?

John leaves home and then he takes three right turns. John wants to return to home but he was scared of Jacob, who is wearing a mask.

What is John Situation ?

How many letters are in the alphabet?

What always comes into a house through the keyhole?

Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?