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consciousness said:
This is correct, despite the fact it's unlikely you'd get this much for it at any recycling center.
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Enigman said:
Go away Schrödinger! Someone might observe YOU!
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zoobyshoe said:
What recycling center? *follows the examples of others around him and throws a bottle out the window*
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consciousness said:
I am the ENIGMAN. I am unobservable. My mask indiscernible. My mystery (Mr.E) unsolvable. I am outside the box. I will do the observing...
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Enigman said:
So you cannot be observed? *Uses Occam's razor to cut Enigman out of reality!*
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I'm sorry to inform you you have been the victim of a misspelling all this time. You are actually the Eggman. No one's had the heart to tell you.Enigman said:
zoobyshoe
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Well, I insist that it IS correct, and I'll keep on insisting it till you're blue in the face!consciousness said:2$ is the total profit
I insist my answer is correct!
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zoobyshoe said:
So you pute his answer? Well, so do I!
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"The instructive thing about this puzzle is that although it can easily be solved using elementary algebra, it can also be solved without any algebra at all-just by plain common sense. Moreover, the common sense solution is, in my judgement, for more interesting and informative - and certainly more creative - than the algebraic solution.
Fifty-six biscuits are to be fed to ten pets; each pet is either a cat or a dog. Each dog is to get six biscuits, and each cat is to get five. How many dogs and how many cats are there?
Any reader familiar with algebra can get this immediately. Also, the problem can be solved by trial and error: there are eleven possibilities for the number of cats (anywhere from zero to ten), so each possibility can be tried until the correct answer is found. But if you look at this problem in just the right light, there is a surprisingly simple solution that involves neither algebra nor trial and error."
What is this interesting and creative "common sense" answer?
Fifty-six biscuits are to be fed to ten pets; each pet is either a cat or a dog. Each dog is to get six biscuits, and each cat is to get five. How many dogs and how many cats are there?
Any reader familiar with algebra can get this immediately. Also, the problem can be solved by trial and error: there are eleven possibilities for the number of cats (anywhere from zero to ten), so each possibility can be tried until the correct answer is found. But if you look at this problem in just the right light, there is a surprisingly simple solution that involves neither algebra nor trial and error."
What is this interesting and creative "common sense" answer?
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zoobyshoe said:
Hushhh...that can't be known. I can neither confirm or deny that. If I tell you I will have to kill you...
EDIT: Possible News headline in the recent future:
the last zoobie killed by an eggman who Mr.E-ously disappears.
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Enigman said:sleep muddled, brain addled,
funny little Enigman
(was I hallucinating or did collinsmark too reply to this one?)
Yes, I replied with the correct
3 Shillings and 3 pennies
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zoobyshoe said:
The sum should be 56.
units place should be 6
A-units place of biscuits eaten by cats should 0 or 5
You can get 6 in units place by (adding 1 to A=5) or (adding 6 to A=0)
B- units place of biscuits eaten by dogs can't be 1
A=0 B=6
Multiple of 6 with units place 6--> 36,6
36 satisfies all conditions
6-->dogs 4-->cats
units place should be 6
A-units place of biscuits eaten by cats should 0 or 5
You can get 6 in units place by (adding 1 to A=5) or (adding 6 to A=0)
B- units place of biscuits eaten by dogs can't be 1
A=0 B=6
Multiple of 6 with units place 6--> 36,6
36 satisfies all conditions
6-->dogs 4-->cats
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collinsmark said:
Don't do that... I have a paranoia of having paranoid schizophrenia...
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collinsmark said:
Your correct answer was much better than his correct answer. He seemed to have lost the ability to form plurals: "3 Shilling, 3 Penny."
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Enigman said:
Absolutely not!
We're looking for an "interesting, creative, 'common-sense'" answer.
We're looking for an "interesting, creative, 'common-sense'" answer.
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Those are vague guidelines, I steered clear of the more set in ground ones- No algebra; No trial and error.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-A.E.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-A.E.
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When you read the answer, you'll go "Doh!"
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This is still math but maybe less enough that it counts:
If there were 10 dogs, we would need 60 biscuits. We need 4 fewer biscuits so there must be 4 cats.
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Maximum case 60 biscuits
Actual case 56 biscuits
Shortage 4
No. of cats 4
No. of dogs 6
Actual case 56 biscuits
Shortage 4
No. of cats 4
No. of dogs 6
won't delete it.
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Doh!
A man marries a woman, but is not her husband. How?
A man marries a woman, but is not her husband. How?
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The clergyman?
consciousness
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Correct. There is another answer also...
Edit-Actually the second answer may not be found by people of all cultures.
Edit-Actually the second answer may not be found by people of all cultures.
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"It" is ambiguous, and could be referring to the woman, in which case it is clear that she is not her own husband
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Office_Shredder said:
You can read it as- A man marries a woman, but he is not her husband. How?
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Hmm... somehow the first time when I read it I thought it said
"A man marries a woman, but IT is not her husband. How?"
Never mind, carry on.
"A man marries a woman, but IT is not her husband. How?"
Never mind, carry on.
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he is her widower? her ex-husband?
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Office_Shredder said:
Right idea. The solution in the book is to make note of the fact each animal gets at least 5 biscuits. Removing 5 x 10 from the total leaves 6, which must also be the total number of dogs.
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@Enigman, I haven't heard this phrase used in that sense. But I have in another sense though. Not sure about you guys.
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Okkkaaaay...
Baseball?
Baseball?
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The Puzzleland Toy Store charges $6 for a doll, $7.50 for a train, $4.50 for a top, and $12 for a paint set.
What would you pay there for a bicycle?
What would you pay there for a bicycle?