My son was playing with a book and tore out pages 7, 8, 100, 101, 222, and 223. How many pages were torn out?

Question

There are 2 books sitting side by side, consisting of exactly 100 pages.
The book on the left is upside down.
If you add the page number at the extreme left side of the book on the left to the page number at the extreme right side of the right hand side book, what is the total?

Answer 1

This is a tricky riddle indeed. Each page in a book has a odd and even number( assuming its printed both sides).Hence page number looks like 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 and so on..Now looking at above riddle.

7-8 is single page
99-100 is single page
101-102 is single page
221-222 is single page
223-224 is single page.

So total of 5 pages

Comments

The question was how many pages were torn not sheets of paper.  Pages (7,8,99,100,101,102,221,222,223, 224) were torn out

Answer 2

10 pages

7+8 - 2
100+99 - 2
101+102 - 2
222+221 - 2
223+224 -2

Comments

But then again its de stable which I'm not up for ☺

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Technically still 5 because he did not put his hand to the book and tear 10 times

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The question was how many pages were torn not sheets of paper