logical answers!

1. There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still
remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and
what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
2. 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?
3. George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee.
Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking soda.
Using logic, is Elizabeth drinking coffee or soda?
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1. The base word is Startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in – I
2. The man did exactly as he said he would and wrote "your exact weight" on the paper.
3. Elizabeth is drinking coffee. The letter E appears twice in her name, as it does in the names of the others