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I would get a listing of a Toyota dealer in
Winnipeg and get'em to FedEX it ...and X my fingers ......Then tell'em I had
to ship it in fron the States ...and that's
why it cost so fucking much
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:40 PM
Subject: Puzzler of the week
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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Scott
MacLean
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