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Top notch answer, Jo!!!
Dave
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:16
AM
Subject: Re: Puzzler of the week
Since they divided the loaves equally, each would
get 2 2/3 loaves. The one who had 5 loaves would give up 2 1/3
loaves. The one who had 3 loaves would give up only 1/3 of a loaf.
Therefore the first one should get 7 coins, one for each 1/3 loaf, the other
should get one coin for the 1/3 he gave up. Hopefully the magistrate
could do the calculations :-))))
Jo
At 07:51 AM 06/04/2002, Scott
MacLean wrote:
This week's
puzzler:
Two Bedouins were traveling across the desert to a
distant village. In the middle of the day, they sat down to eat the loaves
of bread that they had brought with them for lunch. One of them had
five loaves and the other had three.
Just as they were ready to eat,
a stranger comes along and asks if he might share their meal.
He said
he had plenty of money but no food. The two agreed to divide their
loaves equally among the three of them.
After the meal was finished,
the stranger laid down eight coins of equal value for what he had eaten and
he went away. The traveler who had five loaves took up five coins and
left three for the other guy. But the other guy disputed it, saying, "We
shared the bread, we should each get four coins." Since they could not
agree, they called in a magistrate. The magistrate listened to the story and
then figured out who should get what.
The question is, who's right?
Or, is neither of them right?
Last week's
puzzler:
A fellow is driving his car and gets pulled over by a
cop. The cop says, "I happened to notice as you were driving by, that your
inspection sticker expired six months ago. I'm going to have to give you a
ticket."
The fellow replies, "You're not going to believe this, but
this is the first time that the car has been driven in seven months.
You see, I was let go from my last job and while the security people were
escorting me from the building I fell down a flight of stairs and broke my
hip. I've had a pretty rough go of it, what with the surgery, the steel pins
and the rehab. I've been home all these months. I haven't gotten the
inspection sticker because it expired while I was convalescing. Just
yesterday I got a job offer, and I'm heading for an interview
tomorrow. But I figured, I better go get my inspection sticker because
I knew it had expired."
The cop seems to be buying this whole story.
He says, "I do feel pretty bad for you. That's a sad story, and I hope you
get the job. But I'm going to have to see your driver's license to
make sure that that hasn't expired."
The fellow opens the door to the
car, undoes the seatbelt, gets out and reaches for his wallet to get his
driver's license.
And the cop says, "I'll definitely need to see that
license because I'm writing you a ticket."
His car had been driven
during the period of time that he said it wasn't being driven.
What
did the cop see?
Last week's puzzler answer:
This is
not the first time that this car has been driven in seven months. The
question was, what did the cop see? What the cop saw as soon as the fellow
opened the door, was the little sticker that gas stations often affix to
either the door or the door pillar that says, your next oil change is due in
three months, and they put the date on it. And it gave him away. He'd had an
oil change three months ago and if this is the first time he's driven the
car, he's in deep trouble.
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