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by **112-1077774096** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:39 am

maypaxvobiscum wrote:damn! haha nice one

A grandfather clock chimes the appropriate number of times to indicate the hour, as well as chiming once at each quarter hour. If you were in another room and heard the clock chime just once, what would be the longest period of time you would have to wait in order to be certain of the correct time?

one hour and forty five minutes,

if the clock chimes once at 12.15 the next time it would chime more than once would be at 2 o'clock

by **scouser 'til I die** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:50 pm

maypaxvobiscum wrote:*the more you have of it, the less you see, what is it?

Darkness

by **red37** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:25 pm

maypaxvobiscum wrote:*the more you have of it, the less you see, what is it?

*You arrive at a hotel and have 3 sets of golden rings. The first set of rings has 4 rings, the second set has 2 rings and the third only has one ring. You cannot take these sets of rings apart, exchange them for a different form of currency, and the hotel clerk has no change. You want to stay at the hotel for 7 nights, and you have to pay one gold ring for each night that you stay. You cannot pay in advance, or all at once at the end of your stay. How do you pay for your 7 nights at the hotel?

1. Fog?

2. Pay for the first night with one ring. Sabotage the room, kick off and demand the other six nights free

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:02 am

red37 wrote:
maypaxvobiscum wrote:*the more you have of it, the less you see, what is it?

*You arrive at a hotel and have 3 sets of golden rings. The first set of rings has 4 rings, the second set has 2 rings and the third only has one ring. You cannot take these sets of rings apart, exchange them for a different form of currency, and the hotel clerk has no change. You want to stay at the hotel for 7 nights, and you have to pay one gold ring for each night that you stay. You cannot pay in advance, or all at once at the end of your stay. How do you pay for your 7 nights at the hotel?

1. Fog?

2. Pay for the first night with one ring. Sabotage the room, kick off and demand the other six nights free

1) darkness

2) You give the clerk the 1 ring on the first night(1). On the second night you give the clerk the set of 2 rings and take back the 1 ring(2). On the third night you give the clerk the 1 ring that you took back(2 + 1). On the fourth, you take back the 1 ring and the set of 2 rings, and give him the set of 4 rings in return(4). On the fifth night, you give the clerk the 1 ring back(4 +1). On the sixth night, you take back the 1 ring and give him the 2 rings(4 + 2). And on the seventh night you give him the 1 ring back(4 +2 + 1).

:;):

by **red37** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:29 am

I like my way best..It would make a better film

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 5:27 pm

red37 wrote:I like my way best..It would make a better film

something like the movie ''The Vacancy'' ?

What row of numbers comes next?

1
11
21
1211
111221
312211
13112221

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:42 am

Assume that penguins live with a density of 1,000 penguins per square mile and can run at an average speed of 7 miles per hour on land and swim at 20 miles per hour. Also assume that a polar bear has a territory of 10 square miles, can run at 25 miles per hour and swim at 10 miles per hour, how many penguins will an average polar bear eat in any given month, remembering that a polar bear could, as a maximum, only eat one penguin per hour and 7% of the land is next to the sea.

by **112-1077774096** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:45 am

i think the polar bear lives in the north and penquin lives in the south so as they are many thousand miles apart i would guess they can't eat any

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:45 am

1) Two boxes are labeled "A" and "B". A sign on box A says "The sign on box B is true and the gold is in box A". A sign on box B says "The sign on box A is false and the gold is in box A". Assuming there is gold in one of the boxes, which box contains the gold?

2) Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totaling £27. The bellboy has £2, totaling £29. Where is the missing £1?

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 3:46 am

peewee wrote:i think the polar bear lives in the north and penquin lives in the south so as they are many thousand miles apart i would guess they can't eat any

you got it!

by **112-1077774096** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:46 am

maypaxvobiscum wrote:2) Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totaling £27. The bellboy has £2, totaling £29. Where is the missing £1?

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:51 pm

whats wrong peewee?

by **destro** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:32 pm

maypaxvobiscum wrote:Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totaling £27. The bellboy has £2, totaling £29. Where is the missing £1?

They paid £30 to start with, they each received back £1, meaning they now have only paid £27. The Manager got £25 for the room and the Bell Boy pocketed £2, there is no missing £.

I am still working on the Boxes one

by **NiftyNeil** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:46 pm

maypaxvobiscum wrote:1) Two boxes are labeled "A" and "B". A sign on box A says "The sign on box B is true and the gold is in box A". A sign on box B says "The sign on box A is false and the gold is in box A". Assuming there is gold in one of the boxes, which box contains the gold?

2) Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totaling £27. The bellboy has £2, totaling £29. Where is the missing £1?

1) If one sign is definitely true, then it has to be box A. Seeing as that it doesn't say this, then it could be either.

2) It's true that they've paid £9 each for the room equalling £27. The £2 that the bell boy has is included in that amount and should not be added once again to make £29. So the total of the transaction is £9 each = £27 , £2 of which is in the bellboy's skyrocket, and the three people each have £1 each totalling £30.

by **maypaxvobiscum** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:19 pm

destro wrote:
maypaxvobiscum wrote:Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totaling £27. The bellboy has £2, totaling £29. Where is the missing £1?

They paid £30 to start with, they each received back £1, meaning they now have only paid £27. The Manager got £25 for the room and the Bell Boy pocketed £2, there is no missing £.

I am still working on the Boxes one

haha you're right.

as for the box one. NiftyNeil got it.

If the statement on box A is true, then the statement on box B is true, since that is what the statement on box A says. But the statement on box B states that the statement on box A is false, which contradicts the original assumption. Therefore, the statement on box A must be false. This implies that either the statement on box B is false or that the gold is in box B. If the statement on box B is false, then either the statement on box A is true (which it cannot be) or the gold is in box B. Either way, the gold is in box B.

However, there is a hidden assumption in this argument: namely, that each statement must be either true or false. This assumption leads to paradoxes, for example, consider the statement: "This statement is false." If it is true, it is false; if it is false, it is true. The only way out of the paradox is to deny that the statement is either true or false and label it meaningless instead. Both of the statements on the boxes are therefore meaningless and nothing can be concluded from them. Common sense dictates that this problem cannot be solved with the information given. After all, how can we deduce which box contains the gold simply by reading statements written on the outside of the box? Suppose we deduce that the gold is in box B by whatever line of reasoning we choose. What is to stop us from simply putting the gold in box A, regardless of what we deduced?

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