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powergirl
Correct...cristo said:Because the driver could see the man- it was daytime, so lights were not needed.
Correct...cristo said:Because the driver could see the man- it was daytime, so lights were not needed.
Ask one of the guards what the other guard would say if you asked him if his door led to freedom. Then take the other door to what he tells you.powergirl said:A prisoner is in jail. There are two doors, one leads to freedom one leads to death. There is a guard at each door. One guard always tells the truth, the other always tells lies. The prisoner is allowed one question to either of the guards.
What is the question that will take him to freedom.?
J77 said:Ask one of the guards what the other guard would say if you asked him if his door led to freedom. Then take the other door to what he tells you.
That's an old one, like:powergirl said:Hmm.. CORRECT...
dontdisturbmycircles said:That one was posted a few weeks ago J77, he used a cube of ice to hang himself.
J77 said:That's an old one, like:
A bloke's found dead, hanging above a puddle in a locked room. How did he die?
(or words to the effect of what I've put there.)
Everybody knows that 4 cuts divide something into 5 slices.powergirl said:Exactly how many slices of 1.5 cm each can you cut from a whole bread which is 22.5 cm long?
She picks a stone out of the bag and accidentally drops it on footpath before anyone can see it. Thge only way to know which she picked is to look at the other one in the bag. Since it's black, she must have chosen the white one.powergirl said:A landlord is threatening to evict a father and his beautiful young daughter, unless she agrees to marry him. In a false gesture of sincerity, he offers her an opportunity for her and her father to remain in the house, without marrying him. He has a silk bag in which he says he has placed a white and a black stone from the footpath on which they're standing. If she picks the white stone from the bag, without looking, she wins; if she picks the black, she loses. However, the young girl saw him place two black stones in the bag. She can't expose him in front of the witnesses without angering him and making things worse. How does the clever girl win?
Flick one switch on. Flick another switch on for 30 seconds then turn it off.powergirl said:3)Three switches outside a windowless room are connected to three light bulbs inside the room. How can you determine which switch is connected to which bulb if you may enter the room only once?
DaveC426913 said:powergirl said:Exactly how many slices of 1.5 cm each can you cut from a whole bread which is 22.5 cm long?
Everybody knows that 4 cuts divide something into 5 slices.
So 16.
davee123 said:I don't get it...
DaveE
davee123 said:I don't get it... She's asking how many slices, right? And each slice has to be exactly 1.5 cm long? And the whole bread loaf is 22.5 cm long? And 22.5/1.5 = 15, so 15 slices, right? Which means 14 cuts? And that's assuming each cut is perfect and infintesimally thin. Am I missing some hidden caveat of the problem? Does an end piece not count as a slice or something?
DaveE
powergirl said:A landlord is threatening to evict a father and his beautiful young daughter, unless she agrees to marry him. In a false gesture of sincerity, he offers her an opportunity for her and her father to remain in the house, without marrying him. He has a silk bag in which he says he has placed a white and a black stone from the footpath on which they're standing. If she picks the white stone from the bag, without looking, she wins; if she picks the black, she loses. However, the young girl saw him place two black stones in the bag. She can't expose him in front of the witnesses without angering him and making things worse. How does the clever girl win?
Am waiting for someone to think of this question once more..and gimme a tricky ans:
"tricky" answer...powergirl said:I think that U must approach this Question in a tricky way...
ANSWER is not right anyway...
Am waiting for someone to think of this question once more..and gimme a tricky ans:
Schrodinger's Dog said:A man is told that he is to be sentenced. The judge asks if he has anything to say and the man says, if I can plunge my hands into boiling water and keep them there for a few minutes would this not show that the Gods favoured me, and that I was innocent?
Interested by the mans show of piety the judge acceeds. How does the man plunge his hands into boiling water for a few minutes without sustaining injury? Assume that he has no protective measures on his hands, such as gloves,any sort of barrier.
Schrodinger's Dog said:How does the man plunge his hands into boiling water for a few minutes without sustaining injury?
How does the man plunge his hands into boiling water for a few minutes without sustaining injury?
DaveC426913 said:I suspect the answer is more elegant than any of DaveE's - it'll be of "the truck with its lights off" variety. The answer is based on information we already know, the trick is the assumptions we apply.
davee123 said:So, I like the idea that he's got prosthetic hands, as suggested earlier. It's not too "out there", and covers an assumption that we'd probably make (and assumably the judge made too)
DaveE
DaveC426913 said:They are on the peak of Mount Everest? In space? Um...
Both right, the man lives in India and asks if he might be tried before the Gods themselves at the top of a very high mountain peak where a small Budhist shrine sits, the judge impressed once again by his piety acceeds. Of course at the top of the mountain the boiling point of water is much lower and so this and the resultant cold mean the man picks up a couple of handfulls of snow and plunges his hands into the water; he escapes with rather red hands and in some pain but no permanent damage, the man is freed, blessed as he is by the Gods themselvesdavee123 said:Hm. Possibilities:
1) The water is boiling, but at a lower temperature (as suggested, maybe at extremely high altitudes or in space or something)
2) The water does not sustain its boil
3) The amount of water is insignificantly small
4) He somehow is able to avoid contact with the water
5) His hands are artificial and unaffected by boiling water (or perhaps are already damaged sufficiently so that they aren't negatively affected)
6) "His" hands are not the hands which are attached to his physical body
I think I like number 5 best, though...
DaveE
So yes, altitude matters for boiling. At sea level, water boils at
approximately 100 degrees Celsius. In the Denver area where I live, the
atmospheric pressure is about 83% of that at sea level, and water boils at
about 95 degrees C. Atop Mount Everest, it is about 34% of sea level,
which translates into boiling at about 72 degrees C.
Schrodinger's Dog said:The stones in the bag problem is a derivative of a black and white grape, the person in question quickly pulls out and eats one of the grapes, saying look in the bag, and lo and behold the grape in the bag is black so his must of been white.
A man is told that he is to be sentenced. The judge asks if he has anything to say and the man says, if I can plunge my hands into boiling water and keep them there for a few minutes would this not show that the Gods favoured me, and that I was innocent?
Interested by the mans show of piety the judge acceeds. How does the man plunge his hands into boiling water for a few minutes without sustaining injury? Assume that he has no protective measures on his hands, such as gloves,any sort of barrier.
Schrodinger's Dog said:the man picks up a couple of handfulls of snow and plunges his hands into the water; he escapes with rather red hands and in some pain but no permanent damage, the man is freed, blessed as he is by the Gods themselves
I figured this'd be an easy one on a physics forum
davee123 said:Hmm, in looking further at this, I'm not sure this is actually possible. Looking on the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_(injury )
Temperature/Duration until injury:
155F (68.3C) 1 second
145F (62.9C) 3 seconds
135F (57.2C) 10 seconds
130F (54.4C) 30 seconds
125F (51.6C) 2 minutes
120F (48.8C) 5 minutes
Guess it depends on how much snow he puts in, how quickly the cold water dissipates, and how long until the new water starts boiling (assuming that it's still being heated to keep the boil)!
DaveE
DaveC426913 said:There exist simple English language sentences composed of only common words that can be correctly spoken but cannot be correctly written down. Provide an example (which will be incorrectly written of course).
davee123 said:Hmm, in looking further at this, I'm not sure this is actually possible. Looking on the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_(injury )
Temperature/Duration until injury:
155F (68.3C) 1 second
145F (62.9C) 3 seconds
135F (57.2C) 10 seconds
130F (54.4C) 30 seconds
125F (51.6C) 2 minutes
120F (48.8C) 5 minutes
Guess it depends on how much snow he puts in, how quickly the cold water dissipates, and how long until the new water starts boiling (assuming that it's still being heated to keep the boil)!
DaveE
DaveC426913 said:I suppose you could take the holding a snowball even further. The problem states that he plunges his hands into boiling water, but it does not say that the water must remain boiling. If he held a 1L snowball in a pot containing 1L of boiling water, then the water temp would rapidly equalize at a very tolerable temp. You'd still want to do it on top of Everest, since that drops the boiling temp enough to forestall the worst of the initial damage.
Schrodinger's Dog said:You seem to forget that at that altitude and coldness the water will cool very quickly, assuming he has his hands in the snow for enough time for it to cool and his hands start off at say something close to 10 degrees C(50F) He could get away with it, and note I didn't say without x, just able to do it. Only way to answer this is to do it though but in theory it should be possible.