Todays Puzzel

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Just for fun

How do you get ten horses into these nine stables?

Yes I know puzzle is spelt puzzle…… I just like upsetting the rivet counters

 

Edited By Paul T on 22/08/2015 15:53:08

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

[The Long BuildParticipant @thelongbuild]

TENHORSES 1 Letter in each stsble

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Well that was too simple……I will try for something difficult tomorrow.

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Todays offering.

A bear walks south for one mile, then it walks west for one mile, then it walks north for one mile and ends up at the same point from which it started. What colour was the bear?

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

White – a polar bear at the pole.

DM

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hi Dave

Nice to see another example of MB genius at work.

Paul

I shall have to delve deeper and find a puzzle that cant be answered by Google

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Google? How dare you, sir! I wouldn't know where to start.

DM

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Here is one just for Mr Milbourn

A chicken farmer has figured out that a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half. How many hens does the farmer need to produce one dozen eggs in six days?

Paul

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Two?

I've one for you –

You're driving a football team to its away match. At the clubhouse five players board the bus, but one gets off as the bus passes his house. The bus stops at the village green and picks up six more players and the referee, then goes back to the house where the first player got off and picks him up again along with his son, who is also playing in the match and hadn't got out of bed in time for the proper meet. The bus then proceeds to the next village and drops off the players and the referee to play their match.

What's the driver's astrological birth sign?

DM

Edited By Dave Milbourn on 23/08/2015 11:05:30

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

The same as yours obviously….

Some people seem to have time on their hands.

Mind you I remember a maths question in my GCE back in the depths of time which involved calculating areas. It began 'a semi circular lake….' Amazing how many nervous examinees missed the second word.

Colin

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Hi Dave

This is a classic problem that many people get wrong because they reason that half of a hen cannot lay an egg, and a hen cannot lay half an egg. However, we can get a satisfactory solution by treating this as a purely mathematical problem where the numbers represent averages.

To solve the problem, we first need to find the rate at which the hens lay eggs. The problem can be represented by the following equation, where RATE is the number of eggs produced per hen·day:

1½ hens × 1½ days × RATE = 1½ eggs

We convert this to fractions thus:
3/2 hens × 3/2 days × RATE = 3/2 eggs

Multiplying both sides of the equation by 2/3, we get:
1 hen × 3/2 days × RATE = 1 egg

Multiplying both sides of the equation again by 2/3 and solving for RATE, we get:
RATE = 2/3 eggs per hen·day

Now that we know the rate at which hens lay eggs, we can calculate how many hens (H) can produce 12 eggs in six days using the following equation:

H hens × 6 days × 2/3 eggs per hen·day = 12 eggs

Solving for H, we get:
H = 12 eggs /(6 days × 2/3 eggs per hen·day) = 12/4 = 3 hens

Therefore, the farmer needs 3 hens to produce 12 eggs in 6 days.

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Why doesn't he buy them like any sensible person does? Twerp………..

DM

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

How about this one.

Three model boaters checked into a hotel for the model boat convention and paid the clerk £30 for a room (£10 each). When the hotel manager returned, he noticed that the clerk had incorrectly charged £30 instead of £25 for the room. The manager told the clerk to return £5 to the modellers. The clerk, knowing that the students would not be able to divide £5 evenly, decided to keep £2 and to give them only £3.

The modellers were very happy because they paid only £27 for the room (£9 each). However, if they paid £27 and the clerk kept £2, that adds up to £29. What happened to the other Pound?

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

This one is a classic, and based on a phrasing that confuses what money is in whose pockets.

The 3 x £9 = £27 pounds that the modellers paid in the end are not the sum of the £25 actual room cost and the £3 pounds that were returned to them, but of the £25 and the £2 nicked by the clerk; £25 + £2 = £27, while £27 plus the £3 returned to the modellers make up the full £30.

/Mattias

Edited By Banjoman on 24/08/2015 12:07:44

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

PS. I congratulate the three modellers on finding such a moderately priced hotel, and hope that their stay was a comfortable one.

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Well done Mattias

The hotel was very comfortable with hot and cold running chambermaids.

Paul

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Here is a quick one that has a number of answers……depending upon your point of view.

What came first the chicken or the egg?

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Is it 42?

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Thank you Marvin for that deeply thought cryptic answer.

Readers who don't understand shouldn't panic as DM is a legend in his own lunchtime.

Paul

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

The answer can hardly be 42, though, as we do know what the question is …

/Mattias

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Mattias

See "The Ultimate Answer" here………………….. **LINK**

(or maybe not).

The question was "What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9?" as far as I can recall. This led to all sorts of Adams-esque nonsense (See The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

Dave

Edited By Dave Milbourn on 25/08/2015 11:30:00

Edited By Dave Milbourn on 25/08/2015 11:33:21

[BanjomanParticipant @banjoman]

Dave,

No, the real question was not "what do you get when you multiply 6 by 7", although if I remember correctly that was indeed suggested by one of those who we there to recieve the answer from Deep Thought …

And thanks to the Vogons, we will never know either; see **LINK**

/Mattias

Edited By Banjoman on 25/08/2015 11:54:22

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something that is completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

This is one of my favourite Douglas Adams quotes and I used to have it on my desk.

Now back to the Question……Which came first..The Chicken or the Egg?

Paul

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Mattias

I got my reference from good ole Wikky so there's no knowing if it's true without confirming the reference to the original book. Here's the quotation anyway:

Arthur attempts to determine the Question to the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe and Everything by reaching into a Scrabble bag made from Ford's towel and pulling out letters randomly, hoping Deep Thought's computational matrix in Earth would have rubbed off on his subconscious. The letters spell "What do you get when you multiply six by nine"^[2] before running out, although the Neanderthals manage to spell "forty-two" with the tiles, implying that it is they, rather than the Golgafrinchans, who were intended to be part of Earth's computer matrix. After some brief contemplation, Ford and Arthur realise that this is, in fact, a detrimental "cock-up", and that the Earth will never produce the proper Question, thus destroying all hope of ever finding out what it is.

(BTW 6 x 7 really is 42.)

Paul

No-one really knows, and even fewer care……………….except maybe a very ancient and wise chicken.

(It was actually two proto-chickens – which weren't really chickens themselves – who got together and created a chicken egg. So it was the egg.)

DM

Edited By Dave Milbourn on 25/08/2015 13:46:06

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