Riddle Me This...

n7of9 · Post by **n7of9** » 20-11-04, 1:54 am

You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?

the match...because its dark, so you can find the candle and then find the stove

Post by **T-Boyd** » 20-11-04, 11:48 am

n7of9 · Post by **n7of9** » 21-11-04, 1:39 am

don't be waiting for me to come up with the next riddle

.:VerTiGo:. · Post by **.:VerTiGo:.** » 21-11-04, 2:16 am

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

Have fun with that one...

n7of9 · Post by **n7of9** » 21-11-04, 2:32 am

30-5=$25 (your new figure)
3x9=$27 you dont ADD the $2, you SUBTRACT it to get to your new figure of $25

alternatively, if you are dealing with the original $30, the clerk has $25 + $3 (to the firends) +$2 (to the bellhop) = $30

i'm no fun am i

Jean Pool · Post by **Jean Pool** » 21-11-04, 7:06 am

no likee this stuff...

I bet this just happened to V at her job and she's trying to outsource the computation. To Austrailia.

Post by **Sholix** » 21-11-04, 4:32 pm

Here's a simple one for y'all.

A college class of fewer than 30 students took a test. The results were varied and as follows:
One third of the class received a "B", one fourth received a "C", one sixth received a "D", and one eighth flunked. Everyone else got an "A"

How many students got an "A" on the test?

.:VerTiGo:. · Post by **.:VerTiGo:.** » 21-11-04, 5:11 pm

eh gawd.. the math is damaging my brain.....

Post by **T-Boyd** » 21-11-04, 10:13 pm

Ummmm..."3" got an "A"

24 Students in the class
1/3 - B - 8
1/4 - C - 6
1/6 - D - 4
1/8 - F - 3

Jean Pool · Post by **Jean Pool** » 22-11-04, 8:34 pm

....and who said you'd never be able to use this stuff in real life?

Post by **Sholix** » 22-11-04, 9:29 pm

Told y'all that one was easy.

Post by **T-Boyd** » 22-11-04, 11:19 pm

Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black, blue, and gray,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?

Merideth · Post by **Merideth** » 22-11-04, 11:50 pm