Solution:

The best way to increase the probability of winning is to place one yellow ball in the first bowl and all the other balls in the second bowl.

Now, you have a 1/2 probability of choosing the bowl with just one yellow ball. If you choose that, you win.

If you choose the other bowl, it has 49 yellow balls and 50 white balls. You still have almost 1/2 probability of picking a yellow ball out of it and winning.

Solution:

The stranger said that he thought the room was his. If so, he must have had the keys to the room and thus he must not have knocked.

Solution:

This statement is true but only in a specific case i.e. if both of the siblings continue to live till the day the younger is as old as the elder one was during the time of their birth.

Solution:

Move and then pour all juice from second glass to fifth glass.

Solution:

2003.

Explanation:
Its a series of prime numbes.

Solution:

100

Series of number that do not contain albhabet 'T'

Solution:

It can be done in 8 moves as shown in the animated image below.

Solution:

The bridge won't break.

When the car has travelled half of the bridge, that is 15km, the car must have used more than 300 grams of fuel. Therefore, the impact of bird's added weight will be zero literally.

Solution:

The matchsticks that are marked with red are to be removed and the final figure will have just two squares. You can remove either pair from the possible four ways.

Solution:

17 mins

The initial solution most people will think of is to use the fastest person as an usher to guide everyone across. How long would that take? 10 + 1 + 7 + 1 + 2 = 21 mins. Is that it? No. That would make this question too simple even as a warm up question.

Let’s brainstorm a little further. To reduce the amount of time, we should find a way for 10 and 7 to go together. If they cross together, then we need one of them to come back to get the others. That would not be ideal. How do we get around that? Maybe we can have 1 waiting on the other side to bring the torch back. Ahaa, we are getting closer. The fastest way to get 1 across and be back is to use 2 to usher 1 across. So let’s put all this together.

1 and 2 go cross
2 comes back
7 and 10 go across
1 comes back
1 and 2 go across (done)

Total time = 2 + 2 + 10 + 1 + 2 = 17 mins

Solution:

The girl was born on 29 February. Thus her birthday came once in four years only while her sister was born on a normal day and celebrated her birthday every year. Thus the girl had a chance of depositing money only 10 times in 4 years through which she collected $2500 while her sister took $50 from the piggy bank every year making the total amount to be $2000. Thus when the piggy bank was opened, it had just $500.