A six-letter word, when you take away one letter, becomes a weight. What is the word?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: It relates to quantity, not mass.
Answer
Bottles
Explanation
Remove 's' from 'dozens' and you have 'dozen', often used to denote 12.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is Bottles.
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