| Oxy the Moron set out into the world and learned a big word, OXYMORON!!! After searching about this new word for some time, he came up with a teaser made especially for you!
Can you figure out which well-known oxymorons these words are? 1) solitary option |
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| A man is found dead at the end of an alley. A detective who enters the scene sees the letter X and immediately knows who killed the man and why. What did the detective conclude? |
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| A farmer dies leaving a will dividing his flock of nineteen sheep with the following ratios:
Half to his oldest son, a quarter to the middle son and one fifth to his youngest son. Without cutting any sheep up, how did the executor of the will fulfill the farmer’s wishes? |
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| My first to third, the adult female supports My second to fifth, a dry spell aptly thwarts My third plus three, a negative condition My fifth and sixth, a computer family My seventh to tenth, means from toil you are free My ninth and next, joined with “per”, means by itself What am I? |
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| Suppose a small bank has one teller and customer transactions take 10 minutes on average. With 5.8 customers arriving per hour, what is the expected wait time? What would it be if you added a second teller? |
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