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Jo,
I thought you would have forgotten how to work with
fractions, since our beloved government insisted that we had to go
"metric."
Dave
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:40
AM
Subject: Re: Puzzler of the week
Sorry about that, but I have always kind of liked
fractions. Works for me :-)))
At 10:27 AM 06/04/2002, Cameron
MacLean wrote:
Argh.
Fractions.
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Jo & John
MacLean
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- 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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