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Make your mind go *boom*
PostPosted:Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:16 am
by BadWolf
Here is an odd riddle for you:
You want to purchase a shirt that costs $97, you borrow $50 from both of your parents ($100 total). You buy the shirt and have $3 leftover, you give each of your parents $1 and keep the last dollar.
Now you owe your parents $49 each, for a total of $98, including the dollar you have the total that you owe and what you have is $99.
Where is the missing dollar?
PostPosted:Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:06 am
by jawfin
Chestnut
PostPosted:Mon Jan 28, 2013 12:44 pm
by Fazz
Who wold pay $97 dollars for a shirt. Waste of money if you ask me...
Shirt was $97, so you owe them both $48.50.
$48.50 * 2 = $97, Then add the change and you get 100
PostPosted:Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:59 am
by MasterM
Fazz wrote:
Shirt was $97, so you owe them both $48.50.
$48.50 * 2 = $97, Then add the change and you get 100
but you borrowed $50, not $48.50. You pay back what you borrowed, not what the item costs.
PostPosted:Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:49 am
by LumberWolf
What Fazz is saying is that you owe 48.50 for them buying the shirt for you. This equals 97 dollars. Since you borrowed 50, this leaves a buck fifty left over that you owe, so you pay back the dollar after. this equals 99. you pocketed the last 50 cents from each of them... making 100.
Shirt = 97 dollars.
Parents = 48.50 per person for the shirt.
You = Borrow 50 dollars per person. 1.50 over what you need.
Remaining = 1.50 for each person. 1.50 * 2 = 3
97+3=100.
Fazzy was right
PostPosted:Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:29 am
by jawfin
As people have posted solutions I may as well.
You don't add the $1 to the 98 to make 99, you take it away to get to 97, being the price of the shirt. Then add to that the original change of 3 bring you back to 100.
PostPosted:Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:15 am
by Alduin
Indeed. Lols
PostPosted:Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:16 pm
by Clank
my mind went boom long ago
PostPosted:Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:40 pm
by Fazz
Clank wrote:my mind went boom long ago
looks for the like button
PostPosted:Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:02 am
by MasterM
Yoshimatsu wrote:What Fazz is saying is that you owe 48.50 for them buying the shirt for you. This equals 97 dollars. Since you borrowed 50, this leaves a buck fifty left over that you owe, so you pay back the dollar after. this equals 99. you pocketed the last 50 cents from each of them... making 100.
Shirt = 97 dollars.
Parents = 48.50 per person for the shirt.
You = Borrow 50 dollars per person. 1.50 over what you need.
Remaining = 1.50 for each person. 1.50 * 2 = 3
97+3=100.
Fazzy was right
you owe them $50. If i borrow a hundred bucks off you to buy a 10 dollar item cause all you happen to have is a hundred dollar bill, you wil get pissed really quickly when I pay you back $10, but that is correct by your logic above. I'm not disputing your answer, just your method
PostPosted:Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:49 pm
by Sentreth
So if you owe your parents 49$ each how many pancakes will fit on the roof? Purple...because aliens don't wear hats. I solved my own riddle.
PostPosted:Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:48 am
by Clank
Sentreth wrote:So if you owe your parents 49$ each how many pancakes will fit on the roof? Purple...because aliens don't wear hats. I solved my own riddle.
PostPosted:Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:22 am
by Sentreth
Clank wrote:Sentreth wrote:So if you owe your parents 49$ each how many pancakes will fit on the roof? Purple...because aliens don't wear hats. I solved my own riddle.
Indeed.