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Saba
Posts: 551 - Karma: 13
Ok last night someone posed a question to me that made my head want to explode....so perhaps one of you will be able to figure this out.


There are three friends who go to a motel for the night. They split the $27 bill into equal thirds meaning they each pay 9 dollars.

The manager decides he wants their business again so he decides to refund them 5 dollars.

He then gives the $5 to an errand boy who brings it to the room. The little boy realizes that there are three friends and 5 dollars so he keeps two and gives them three.

With the refund each friend pays only 8 dollars. meaning the room cost $24.



So if they pay $24 and the errand boy keeps his $2. What happend to the other dollar?



yea. AHHHH

20 years ago
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sim
Posts: 1399 - Karma: -6
Chemical ski, i don't think it is. It was done (when I seen it) on a grid pattern and the two had the same dimensions. I think we even measured it.

signatures are for pussies
20 years ago
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sim
Posts: 1399 - Karma: -6
Oops, upon further inspection, you are actually right. It isn't so much an optical illusion as it is slight deviances in the gradient of the hypotenuese. The shapes inside really don't change area. It still is quite interesting.

Go to the first link first. And no, I don't care if you are too lazy to copy paste.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/22516/triangle_question/

http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~p/stuff/triangle_puzzle/puzzle.swf

Regardless, this doesn't change the fact that something appears to be strange with the original question, and despite some efforts hasn't been explained.

signatures are for pussies
20 years ago
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scientist
Posts: 6920 - Karma: 348
Another good way to explain the gameshow problem. You walk into a store and get a lottery ticket. you pick your usual numbers knowing that your probably wrong. you walk out of the store and a wizard pops up. he says "im not going to tell you that your number is right or wrong, im just telling you that all the other number combinations in the world are WRONG, EXEPT YOUR NUMBER AND 12342. of course you are going to change your number, because you went into the store with a 1 in 5million chance. if he says that its either your number or another number, the other number is almost ironclad that its right, because you eliminate all the other numbers, and 1 of the two has to be right. i hope i explained that okaylie

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20 years ago
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Deafboy
Posts: 643 - Karma: 52
well i dont think saba is going to talk in this thread again.





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20 years ago
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l337
Posts: 1244 - Karma: 14
i woulden't know thats why i am in summer school.
and all are fucking nerds too try and figure it out.


I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ILLEGAL!!!


20 years ago
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Redstar
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3 dudes in one room, I dont like where that's going.

20 years ago
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M+M
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numbers, wayyyyy to many numbers, its outa controll

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