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Old May15-09, 05:36 PM                  #1
Russell Berty

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What is for sale?

One will cost you $.25.
Fifty will cost you $.50.
One hundred will cost you $.75.

What is for sale?
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Old May15-09, 05:44 PM                  #2
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Re: What is for sale?

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Digits, 25 cents each.
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Old May16-09, 03:56 PM                  #3
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Syllables?
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Old May19-09, 09:49 AM                  #4
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Whats a spoiler?
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Old May19-09, 07:53 PM                  #5
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Re: What is for sale?

Point your mouse at the white bar find out.

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PEZ?
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Old May19-09, 09:02 PM                  #6
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It's an old puzzle and very simple. Cristo is right but not sufficiently specific. Where do you live?
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Old May19-09, 11:45 PM                  #7
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Originally Posted by turbo-1 View Post
It's an old puzzle and very simple. Cristo is right but not sufficiently specific. Where do you live?
Doh! Thanks turbo.
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Old May31-09, 01:42 AM                  #8
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Re: What is for sale?

Originally Posted by Russell Berty View Post
One will cost you $.25.
Fifty will cost you $.50.
One hundred will cost you $.75.

What is for sale?


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Hey! I see that the answer has been given but just for fun I'd be curious to see what someone thinks about my answer - always like to see how people look at things differently.....
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I normalized all the numbers based on what was given above (given numbers are underlined/bolded) to find out the price of 1 unit for each item listed
1/ 50 / 100
$.25 / $12.5/ $25
$.01 /$.50 / $1
$.0075 / $.375 / $.75


My assumption was that

on sale meant "available for purchase at the lowest price"

I said the third item was "on sale" because it has the lowest unit price of $.0075 for 1.
what do you think?

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