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I agree with Cameron!!!! I hated math and it hated
me! Anything beyond multiplication/division, I begin to sweat! Although in my
more mature years, I have learned to deal with percentages, only so I'll know
how much of a bargain I'm getting at a good clothing or shoe sale!! Give
me Language Arts anyday! ha.
Love K.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:19
PM
Subject: Re: Puzzler of the week
I have always liked working with fractions, and
since I enjoy cooking and baking, still use them frequently. However, I
also find it easy to work with metric measurements, as it all works on
multiples of 10. Does that make me ambidextrous? :-))))
Jo
At
08:44 PM 06/04/2002, David L. Gomez wrote:
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 -----
- From: Jo & John
MacLean
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- 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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