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Prafull · Feb 25, 2002

Once upon a time three boys went to a bookshop.There they chose a book worth 30 $ and purchased it.At that time the owner of shop wasnt there and his son(the shopkeeper) was handling the shop.Each of the three boy contributed 10$ and gave 30 $ to the shopkeeper.After sometime the shop owner returned and he found out that actual cost of book was 25 $.He gave 5 $ to shopkeeper and asked him to return the money to three boys.The shopkeeper went to three boys but he thought it would be very difficult to divide 5 $ equally between three of them so he gave them 1 $ each and kept remaining 2 $ for himself.
Now the book worths 9 $ (as they got 1 $ back) to each of the three boys.
9 X 3 = 27 .
2 $ are kept by the shopkeeper.
27+2 =29.
What happened to remaining 1$ ???????????

Eface · Feb 27, 2002

got it too!
man, easy one.......

<Id> · Feb 27, 2002

Same. Got it.

Hanamichi · Feb 27, 2002

Originally posted by gerbilcannon
It has already been explained time and again. They tell you exactly where every single dollar goes in the question. Then they just try to confuse you with math that doesn't have much to do with the question afterwards. Tada.

Guess that should be the answer . But ill exclude the tada ...

Here's a question , do it in your mind as fast as possible , and check your answer with a calculator .

1000.
add 10 to it
now another 1000
add 20...
and another 1000
add 40
1000 once more.
and a 30 .

The answer is ?

Strider · Feb 27, 2002

Originally posted by prafull
I hope some guys will stay interested in this.
Anyway for all those who think they solved this one(most of them are wrong) here is a very very simple question and this time there are no tricks at all, just simple mathematics.

Once upon a time a boy was going out from his home.He was very short of money.He prayed to God "If you can double the money I have right now then I will submit some money to whatever church that comes in the way.God was pleased to hear this.God said to the boy "lets make a deal ,I will double your money but you will have to submit 20 $ to every church in the way.As soon as you will submit 20$, remaining money will automatically double itself."
The boy accepted the deal without thinking much about it.His money was doubled.He went out of his home and reached the first church.He submitted 20$ at the church and his remaining money was doubled again.He reached second church,submitted 20$ and his remaining money doubled again.When he reached the third church and submitted 20$ again he found out that all his money was finished.

How much money he had before praying to God ?

NOTE:- This is very simple so if you get the answer very quickly please try not to post it so that others may also try to solve this one.

I got this one after about 2 minutes, simple enough i guess
God is sneaky in this one eh?

Originally posted by Hanamichi

Guess that should be the answer . But ill exclude the tada ...

Here's a question , do it in your mind as fast as possible , and check your answer with a calculator .

1000.
add 10 to it
now another 1000
add 20...
and another 1000
add 40
1000 once more.
and a 30 .

The answer is ?

the answer was easy id post it but, like with the last question ill give the others a couple minutes to figure...

Guest · Feb 27, 2002

While the answer is easy to the above one (you are calculating something which you aren't allowed to do at all) I'm not quite sure what got you to the point that I'm good at maths ...

4100 ?

Here's another one, feel free to post your guesses

Strider · Feb 27, 2002

hmmm

Question spoiler : hmm the slope of the red and dark green box are different, and if you put them in different order the light green box and orange box wont be harmoniously a full rectangle no more

Eface · Feb 27, 2002

Originally posted by Strider
hmmm

Question spoiler : hmm the slope of the red and dark green box are different, and if you put them in different order the light green box and orange box wont be harmoniously a full rectangle no more

nope, the slopes are 100% the same, i know that riddle, and i know the answer too, but i'm not gonna give it yet....

Exodus · Feb 27, 2002

i can see where that hole comes from, but i don't know how to explain it. the only way i can explain it is through slopes.

Prafull · Feb 28, 2002

Really Good one Bobbi.

*Note* I know this puzzle already and dont want to be a spoiler so quickly.

Strider · Feb 28, 2002

Originally posted by Exodus
i can see where that hole comes from, but i don't know how to explain it. the only way i can explain it is through slopes.

thats sorta what i meant, not that the slope of the whole thing changes just that the individual pieces have different slopes so its different in shape in the end

Hanamichi · Feb 28, 2002

Originally posted by Bobbi

4100 ?

Youre joking , no ?

spoiler:About your riddle .... its a good one , I get how that hole formed but ..... hmm. Its there because the slope doesnt really cut a nice half square-by-square across the graph , i think.

Prafull · Mar 5, 2002

New question time.

Another question.

Note- All those who already know the answer please dont spoil.

"A shopkeeper had few weights for measurement purposes. Once he was using his 40kg weight when it suddenly fall down and broke into 4 pieces. Now 4 pieces are such that he can measure anything(each and every weight like 1 kg , 2 kg, 3 kg .... upto 40 kgs) between 1 to 40 kgs."

What are the values of 4 weights ?

Prafull · Mar 5, 2002

Did I explained the question well ? Or it needs further explaining.
Strange ,,, Not even a guess by anyone.

Recca · Mar 5, 2002

My guess: 20

Prafull · Mar 5, 2002

Originally posted by Recca
My guess: 20

If thats reply to that boy,God and church question then never mind ,its wrong.

But if its about that weight problem.
That means either I didnt explained the question well or you are joking.

Recca · Mar 5, 2002

It was about the curch boy. And no i did not joke. I didn't understand it. He asked god to double his money.
My guess is he had 20, gave 20, received 20 gave 20. But then im stuck

Ohh i suck at maths

Gk1986 · Mar 5, 2002

Strider · Mar 6, 2002

SPOILERS ALERT!

ok i think its been up long enough, the god question's answer is 17.50 ... 17.50x2 = 35 -20 = 15 x 2 = 30 - 20 = 10 x 2 = 20 - 20 = 0

the other one though i have no clue... does it have to do with factoring and all that stuff which i forgot last year?

Prafull · Mar 6, 2002

Ok Strider is correct.
Well done.

As far as weight question goes it looks its just toooo difficult .
Come on guys it isnt.

Eface · Mar 6, 2002

to make nice weights he should have 5+5+10+20 but that isnt it....

Strider · Mar 7, 2002

alright... i could do it using 6 different weights, the question is, can i use 1 weight more than once in one number?

POSSIBLE SPOILER: i got 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32... any of these right?

Prafull · Mar 7, 2002

Originally posted by Strider
alright... i could do it using 6 different weights, the question is, can i use 1 weight more than once in one number?

POSSIBLE SPOILER: i got 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32... any of these right?

Not quite.

*Hint* 4 weights should add up to be 40.

Recca · Mar 7, 2002

Originally posted by Strider
SPOILERS ALERT!

ok i think its been up long enough, the god question's answer is 17.50 ... 17.50x2 = 35 -20 = 15 x 2 = 30 - 20 = 10 x 2 = 20 - 20 = 0

the other one though i have no clue... does it have to do with factoring and all that stuff which i forgot last year?

Ahh okay now i understand but i still think it's hard

Prafull · Mar 8, 2002

Hint again
*If you have two weights of say 10 kg and 7 kg you can actually use it as a 3 kg weight putting 10kg on one side and 7kg on other.10-7=3*

Strider · Mar 9, 2002

thats not really a hint, more of a rule ... well im gonna go back to thinking, ive got about 1600 choices of numbers so it'll be a while

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