A brick weighs 1 kilogram plus half a brick. How much does a whole brick weigh?
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If 1 kilogram is one half of the brick, what's the other half?
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2 kilograms. The 1 kilogram is the other half of the brick.If one half of the brick weighs 1 kilogram, the other half does too, so the whole brick weighs 2 kilograms.
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A famous math teaser that sounds harder than it is. Think of the brick as two halves.
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