This week's puzzler:
A few months ago, we needed a part called a "map sensor"
for a customer's Toyota Celica. It's a fairly expensive part, so I wanted
to check with the customer before ordering one.
I called him five or six times, and there was no answer. I realized he
had probably given me his home number, and he was at work.
Finally, late in the day he calls and asks, "Is my car
done?"
I say, "No, it's not done." I explained that he needs this
expensive part. And he tells me to go ahead and order it.
I call the dealer. The phone rings and rings and rings, and I look
and I notice it's 5:01 pm. All the dealerships are closed!
After five minutes of moaning and groaning, I had an inspiration.
And the next morning, I had my part.
How did I do it?
Last 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 answer:
They had five loaves and three loaves. OK? That's eight loaves. Let's
say the guy with the five loaves took and cut his five loaves, each of
his five loaves up into three pieces. So, he'd have 15 pieces. The guy
with the three loaves does the same. He cuts each of his three loaves
into nine pieces.
Now interestingly, they have together 24 little pieces of bread.
Conveniently, there are three of them. So, each person, each of the three
is going to eat eight little pieces of bread. Now, the guy with the 15
loaves eats eight of them himself. That means he has given seven of them
to the stranger. The guy with the nine pieces, the guy with the three
loaves has cut his up into nine pieces, but he's going to eat eight of
them and give one away. So, the magistrate says the guy with the five
loaves gets seven coins, and the other guy gets one.
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