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2 hours. In one hour, Sandy can paint 1/3, or 2/6, of the fence. In that same hour, Claude, lazy as he is, can paint 1/6 of the fence. So, in one hour, they can paint 3/6, or 1/2 of the fence together. After two hours, the fence is done.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Excellent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deity
That brings you back up to ... let me check ... I always had problems adding negative and positive integers...
-122! https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif
Sweet. One way or another, I'm going to have a record score. :eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
LOL https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Deity
Who's lame now, huh? https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/02/1.gif
Bill and Ted were on a round trip using the same route both ways.
Bill drove the first 40 miles and then Ted drove the rest of the way.
On the way back, Bill was first at the wheel again, and then Ted drove the last 50 miles.
Which of the two drove longest, and how many more miles did he drive?
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Ted drove 20 miles farther than Bill.
x = Total distance one way
Bill's miles = 40 + (x - 50) = x -10
Ted's miles = (x - 40) + 50 = x + 10
Ted drove ten miles more than the total distance one way. Since Bill drove ten less, the total difference is 20.
Ted drove 20 miles farther than Bill.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
x = Total distance one way
Bill's miles = 40 + (x - 50) = x -10
Ted's miles = (x - 40) + 50 = x + 10
Ted drove ten miles more than the total distance one way. Since Bill drove ten less, the total difference is 20.
3 more points to the alien. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Deity
There are 100 socks in a drawer. 25 pairs of socks are red, the others are blue.
In complete darkness, what would be the minimum number of socks you would have to draw out to make sure you had 2 socks of the same colour?
And what would be the minimum number of socks needed to ensure you had a specific colour?
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3 socks for two of the same color.
51 socks for two of a specific color.
3 socks for two of the same color.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
51 socks for two of a specific color.
Although, I wonder how you know you got the color you wanted given you're in complete darkness.
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Originally Posted by Deity
3 points for the questions, and an extra for being a smarta$$. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
Thank you for playing today and embarrassing all your little buddies with your superior skills, Deity. I'm pretty sure you made some cry again. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif
Doh! Correction. Second answer should be 52. If you draw all 50 of one color first, wanting the opposite, you will need two more to get a pair of the second color.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deity
I think I'll just go back to work and let some other people play. :sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Enjoy! :thumbs:
But...Quote:
Originally Posted by Deity
Wait...
...dangit.
You're right.
I'll still give you the points for pointing out the error in my logic.
Thanks for embarrassing me too.
Now everybody is happy. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
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I'm not crying, I got to eat lunch. :devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by Deity
Submitted by Wayward Clam:
An game show offers a contestant the opportunity to choose between doors number 1, 2, and 3. Behind one of these doors is a car, and the other two doors have goats behind them. Only the host knows which door had the car behind it.
The contestant is asked to choose one of the doors, but BEFORE what is behind the door is revealed, the host first says "Let's see what's behind one of these other doors!" and then reveals a goat.
Because the host knows where the car is, this is never a problem; he always has at least one door BESIDES the one the contestant picked that he could open to reveal a goat.
Then, before opening the contestant's chosen door, he always the participant the choice to either STAY with the door originally chosen, or to SWITCH to the other unopened door.
The question is, are the odds better by staying with the original choice, switching to the other unopened door, or are the odds the same? The more important part of the question is, WHY?
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He should SWITCH.
You have a 2 in 3 chance of winning if you SWITCH.
Because your original choice of door was 1/3 likely to win, and you have had NO information revealed that affects the odds, as it is ALWAYS possible for the host to reveal a goat, no matter what you picked.
This means that there is a 2/3 chance that the door you originally chose is WRONG, meaning there is a 2/3 chance that the remaining door is RIGHT.
He should switch. There is a 50 % chance the dorr he switches to is a car. His original door is only a 33% chance of being a carQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by edball
That was a hard one. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
3 points. :D
What do you expect, it was from Wayward Clam... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
What's in a song, but not in a tune?
What's in a star, but not in the moon.
What's in the sun, but gone in the night
Out of range, but still in sight?
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The letter S.
The letter SQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
I'm telling. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by edball
Beware the mollusc's wrath genie boy. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by edball
Well there you go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deity
3 points. :)
Weedy Willie was getting too old to work the land alone so he decided to divide his cornfield between himself and his four sons in proportion to their five work rates.
He knew that Rastus, Wig, Twig and Swig together could plant a field of corn in five hours whereas Wig, Twig and Swig and himself together could manage the same task in six hours.
So Weedy divided his field into a two-digit square number of parts and kept just one part for himself. Now, Wig, Twig and Swig were identical triplets so each received the same whole number of parts.
How many parts did each son get?
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Rastus received 9 parts and the triplets each got 13 parts. Let the workrates of the triplets combined, Rastus and Willie be x, y, z, respectively. Then
5(x + y) = 6(x + z) and so y = (x + 6z)/5Since z has one part, we can let x = nz where n is a whole number. We then have y = (6 + n)z/5. The ratio of the work rates of x, y, z is now
n : (6 + n)/5 : 1
Let the total of parts be m, a two-digit square number. We then have n + (6 + n)/5 + 1 =m so that n = (5m - 11)/6. The only solutions are n=19, m=25 or n=39, m=49. Since n is the total number of parts the triplets receive only the value divisible by three applies (n=39).
Oh that was hard...another one from "The Clam" ?Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Ok, quit stalling and answer the next one!Quote:
Originally Posted by edball
Rastus gets 2Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Wig, Twig and Swig each get 47.
Dad gets one.
The field is 12x12.
As a matter of fact, the mollusc DOES have some wrath you should beware of. Adept, the correct answer is that you have a 67% chance of being successful if you switch doors... edball has only indicated a 50% chance in his answer above.Quote:
Originally Posted by edball
Although the 33% posted later does tell you he is on the right track,
SINCE WHEN DO 33% and 50% ADD UP TO 100%?
Sounds to me like edball's mind is only 83% there today... :D
I can't argue with that.... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wayward Clam
Wayward, you don't even know the correct answer to your own question. You can't add statistics from two different ratios, which is what you are trying to do when you come up with the 67%. 50% is correct, because this is a ratio of two, instead of three...
You really are dumb, aren't you... :eek2:
Hoo boy. At least now we get to argue over something in which personal opinions are irrelevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know
Here's how it works Ya_Know. At no point was there ever a 50% chance involved in the process... that number is erroneous. There never WAS a second "ratio"... only the first one.
At the beginning of the process, your original choice has a 67% chance of being wrong.
At the end of the process, your original choice STILL has a 67% chance of being wrong. Nothing has changed that probability.
Therefore, the other choice has a 67% chance of being right.
Probability must ALWAYS add up to 100% If one choice has a 50% chance of being right, the other choice MUST have a 50% chance as well.
You're wrong this time, Ya_Know. And none of your "charisma" can get you out of it. :p
The probabilities changed when one of the doors was eliminated. Originally, 1/3, after elimination 1/2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayward Clam
Adept, I suggest the removal of edball's points. :D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by edball
The probabilities did NOT change.
Proof that Ya_Know and edball are wrong:
http://www.comedia.com/hot/monty-answer.html
Other supporting documentation (and there is a LOT of it):
http://www.geometry.net/detail/theor...l_problem.html
You must live in "The Now" grasshopper...Take away everything that happened before...now one door has a car, the other a goat. What are the odds that your door is a car ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayward Clam
Wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayward Clam
Hey dude, you said it *might* get controversial! https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
I opt not to remove edball's points, simply on the grounds that his answer is valid if you compare the second set of options to the remaining number of possibilities, not the original one. 50% is "correct" then.
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Also, it would be deeply intolerant of me to discriminate against him in that way just because his solution did not exactly match the expected, traditional answer. It's important to remain open-minded about these things, truth being relative and all. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
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I couldn't pass that up - the opportunity was gold!
Seriously though, I think I'll give you another bonus point just for giving us that one. That was great.
We seriously lacked action in here. :D
That's not what I get.Quote:
Originally Posted by edball
I think what adept is trying to elude to is that both answers are correct to a degree of perception. But as Eball points out, your perception is just plain stupid... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Wayward Clam
Funny how the world's smartest human being agrees with me and not you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know
And quite frankly, if you're going to descend to unprovoked and unjustified attacks like that, I'm taking my ball and going home. Enjoy the game without me.
I'm one hundred percent certain you will make fun of me for this decision. However, I'm also 100% certain that I won't lose a wink of sleep over the fact.
Not that you really know what 100% means, but feel free to look it up :D
Cheers!
You know I suck at math... :sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Don't leave ! The game is just getting fun. I apologize for anything insulting that I said or insinuated. I was just "funning" with you. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayward Clam