Bored

[James Stanich]

Try this given a traingle with 5 bubbles on each side...

Use the number one thru 12 to come up with each side equalling 32.

I helped my 9 year old do this for his math class...

So if you are bored, try it. If not, nine times out of ten you wouldn't have bothered lokking in here anyway.

[James Stanich]

Use each number only once.

[MartinLiss]

                              12
                           6       9
                       3               2
                  10                      4
               1     7     8     11         5

Time to solve 3 minutes.

[James Stanich]

9+12+7+1+3 =32

Using the 9,

9+2+4+11+6 = 32

Using the 6,

6+10+8+5+3 = 32

Using the 3, hook back to the 9

3+1+7+12+9 = 32

You see perfect triangle using 1 thru 12 numbers the points of the traingle can be used but they do not duplicate.

Now with the result can you do it? I want a program that does it...

[James Stanich]

BTW May 16th, 1941 - next time you are in 4th grade math, I'm sure you'll make the honor society.

[MartinLiss]

What would be really interesting would be some way of determining how many unique solutions there are. We know there are at least two since our solutions are different, but you would have to be really good at math for that.

[MartinLiss]

A shopper walks into a grocery store and buys half of all the oranges in the store plus 1/2 of an orange.

A second shopper walks into the store and does the same thing. He buys half of all the oranges in the store plus 1/2 of an orange.

A third shopper does the same thing. He buys half of all the oranges in the store plus 1/2 of an orange, but in doing so he buys all the oranges in the store.

How many oranges were there to begin with? This isn't a trick question.

[honeybee]

Originally posted by MartinLiss
A shopper walks into a grocery store and buys half of all the oranges in the store plus 1/2 of an orange.

A second shopper walks into the store and does the same thing. He buys half of all the oranges in the store plus 1/2 of an orange.

A third shopper does the same thing. He buys half of all the oranges in the store plus 1/2 of an orange, but in doing so he buys all the oranges in the store.

The catch is that half the oranges plus half an orange yields a whole number.

Starting from the bottom, the third shopper purchased only 1 orange, 1/2 of the remaining lot and plus 1/2. If the remaining lot were X oranges, this statement would give us X/2 + 1/2 = some whole number. This whole number has to be 1.

The second shopper bought half the oranges and a half orange, which left only one orange. So the second shopper must have bought 2 oranges. There were 3 oranges for the second shopper from which he bought 3/2 plus half an orange, meaning two oranges.

The first shopper bought 4 oranges, and there were a total of 7 oranges in the shop.

Let's go back to it from top:

Originally 7 oranges.
First shopper buys half of them (3.5) plus a half orange(0.5) total bought 3.5 + 0.5 = 4
Oranges left 7 - 4 = 3
Second shopper buys half of them (1.5) and a half (0.5) total bought 2.
Oranges left 3-2 = 1
Third shopper buys half of them (0.5) and a half (0.5) total bought 1 which is all the oranges left in the store.

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PS: And I have a tremendous urge to ask Marty to move this thread to the Maths Forum.

[James Stanich]

MarkT solved it pretty nice I might add.... check out my post WELL in general section

[kovan]

there are 3 apples on a tray
you take one from the tray, how many do you have?

[James Stanich]

you take one from the tray, how many do you have?

One what apple? The result two?

[honeybee]

In any case not more than 3

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[kovan]

hmm

there is 3 APPLES on a tray
you take ONE APPLE from THAT tray
how many APPLE(S) do you have?

[kovan]

Originally posted by honeybee
In any case not more than 3

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Indians are not allowed to compete

(by the way, that is a JOKE)

[honeybee]

Originally posted by James Stanich
MarkT solved it pretty nice I might add.... check out my post WELL in general section

You mean YOUR question? I thought it was about Marty's quiz.

Where's Marty? This thread really belongs in the Maths section.

On second thoughts now that Kovan has joined, I think it's better it's in Chit Chat.

Kovan, the answer could be 1, 2 or 3.

In English, there is a saying: You cannot have an apple and eat it too. (OK, it's not about an apple, but what the heck!)

So if you take one apple, but don't eat it, you could have 3 apples. If you ate the apple that you take, you could have two apples. If you took an apple and ate the remaining two, you could have one apple.

And if I snatched the tray away from you before you picked up the first apple, you would have NONE!

btw, I do get the jokes at times.

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[FantastichenEin]

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[kovan]

Originally posted by honeybee


You mean YOUR question? I thought it was about Marty's quiz.

Where's Marty? This thread really belongs in the Maths section.

On second thoughts now that Kovan has joined, I think it's better it's in Chit Chat.

Kovan, the answer could be 1, 2 or 3.

In English, there is a saying: You cannot have an apple and eat it too. (OK, it's not about an apple, but what the heck!)

So if you take one apple, but don't eat it, you could have 3 apples. If you ate the apple that you take, you could have two apples. If you took an apple and ate the remaining two, you could have one apple.

And if I snatched the tray away from you before you picked up the first apple, you would have NONE!

btw, I do get the jokes at times.

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no those are all kinda wrong

its either ONE, TWO, OR THREE
pick one

you get jokes? wow
world is coming to an end

i have to say when i am joking, cus you seem to not get MOST of my jokes
just covering my ass
(and LITERARALY from some people)

[kovan]

Originally posted by FantastichenEin
1

DING DING DING

right on

if YOU take one
then YOU have one

[honeybee]

Originally posted by kovan


no those are all kinda wrong

its either ONE, TWO, OR THREE
pick one

you get jokes? wow
world is coming to an end

i have to say when i am joking, cus you seem to not get MOST of my jokes
just covering my ass
(and LITERARALY from some people)

Nah, I am not after your ass, literally or virtually.
'Cause I am not gay, and have a very good one to go for. That Osama bin Laden kiddo just sold me two of his asses

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[kovan]

you guys do it with donkeys over there?
wow

transportation and pleasure
thats a good resource you got
2 for 1 deal

[honeybee]

Originally posted by kovan
you guys do it with donkeys over there?
wow

transportation and pleasure
thats a good resource you got
2 for 1 deal

Damn right you are.

We use asses for transportation and lasses for pleasure.



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