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Post by Ubereil on Feb 15, 2007 15:02:17 GMT
He is not 1 mile east of camp, or he would not have seen his damaged tent. One mile south, one mile north means no change i Y-axis. But then he traveled one mile east=> He's one mile east of his base camp. Übereil
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Post by ss on Feb 15, 2007 15:09:15 GMT
White, the only way he could travel 3 legs and be back at the same place would be the North Pole, (or the South, but there ain't no bears st the south pole). ;D
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 16, 2007 1:04:32 GMT
76=24 This is obviously incorrect. Change this equation so that it is mathematically correct, by moving the four digits around. There are four digits here: 7, 6, 2, and 4. Move them around any way you want, but you can't introduce any new signs -- plus sign, minus, division, so on. You may use only the equal sign.
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Post by Shan on Feb 16, 2007 5:54:16 GMT
76=24 This is obviously incorrect. Change this equation so that it is mathematically correct, by moving the four digits around. There are four digits here: 7, 6, 2, and 4. Move them around any way you want, but you can't introduce any new signs -- plus sign, minus, division, so on. You may use only the equal sign. are you allowed to turn the 6 upside down turning it into a 9? if you are then i have an answer.
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 16, 2007 6:08:56 GMT
76=24 This is obviously incorrect. Change this equation so that it is mathematically correct, by moving the four digits around. There are four digits here: 7, 6, 2, and 4. Move them around any way you want, but you can't introduce any new signs -- plus sign, minus, division, so on. You may use only the equal sign. are you allowed to turn the 6 upside down turning it into a 9? if you are then i have an answer. Sure. Turn it upside down. The instructions do say, "Move them around any way you want"
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Post by Shan on Feb 16, 2007 6:21:08 GMT
are you allowed to turn the 6 upside down turning it into a 9? if you are then i have an answer. Sure. Turn it upside down. The instructions do say, "Move them around any way you want" if i can do that then 7 to the power of 2=49 *can't get the small 2*
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 16, 2007 6:31:38 GMT
Sure. Turn it upside down. The instructions do say, "Move them around any way you want" if i can do that then 7 to the power of 2=49 *can't get the small 2* Well done! There are 3 applicants for a job. To decide which is the brightest, they conduct a test which is equally fair to all the applicants, using 3 red hats and one green hat. Each man is blindfolded and a hat is placed on his head. One hat is put aside. The blindfolds are simultaneously removed; the 1st man to correctly identify the color of the hat he is wearing (without removing it) gets the job. What color is his hat and how does he know?
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Feb 16, 2007 10:56:54 GMT
Red - as soon as he can see a green hat on any of the others he knows his hat must be red, and if no one else speaks up it means that he's not wearing a green hat.
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 16, 2007 12:07:23 GMT
Red is correct, but not quite for the right reason. In fact, were an applicant really bright, he would know the answer even before the blindfolds were removed.
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Feb 16, 2007 12:40:55 GMT
Logically the only way to have all three people trying to guess what hat they are wearing is to put the green hat to one side, as it would be immediatly obvious to 2 of the applicants that one of them was wearing the green hat, this would turn the test into the quickest to observe the green hat. Therefore logically the green hat will always be the one that is taken away.
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 16, 2007 15:39:57 GMT
And that will satisfy the requirement that the test is "equally fair to all the applicants." If 1 man were wearing the green hat, he would be at a disadvantage and it would not be "equally fair to all the applicants." ------------------------------------------------
There are 2 computers. One always lies. The other always tells the truth. You can ask 1 question to one computer in order to identify which is which. What do you ask?
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Post by peterh on Feb 16, 2007 15:47:51 GMT
"Are you a computer"?
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 16, 2007 15:59:08 GMT
"Are you a computer"? Gosh! You are right!
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 16, 2007 16:05:54 GMT
A boat in a harbor has a 10 foot rope ladder hanging over the edge. Each rung is 1 foot apart. The rungs are 1 inch thick. The bottom rung is exactly flush with the level of the water. The tide rises 1 foot a day. How many days will it take for the bottom 3 rungs to be submerged under water?
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 16, 2007 16:12:22 GMT
It will never reach that point: boats float
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Post by cleglaw on Feb 16, 2007 16:18:44 GMT
It will never reach that point: boats float Yes. and tides which rise also fall. I'll be afk. Post one yourself if you like.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 16, 2007 16:21:04 GMT
OK How far can a man walk into The Black Forest when he's travelling East?
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Post by ss on Feb 16, 2007 18:03:54 GMT
How would he know? it's black... ;D
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Post by Elliot Kane on Feb 16, 2007 18:12:51 GMT
Is not the right answer
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Post by peterh on Feb 16, 2007 18:22:04 GMT
Until the sun rises in the east. Ain't black anymore
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