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Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:49 am
by crazyskwrls
Guy 1: Guess my 3 children's age, the product of all my kids' ages is 36, and the sum of the ages is your house number
Guy 2: but thats not enough information!
Guy1: alright The oldest loves strawberry icecream
yes it is solvable
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:51 am
by Alterran
aww but it is only solveable to the person who owns the house in question
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:56 am
by Tasdik
Why are there three guys?
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:58 am
by Tasdik
Anyways, the kids ages were, 2,2 and 9...where's my cookie?
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:59 am
by Alterran
tas u cant solve that puzzle there wasnt enough info
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:03 am
by Squirt
crazyskwrls wrote:Guy 1: Guess my 3 children's age, the product of all my kids' ages is 36, and the sum of the ages is your house number
Guy 2: but thats not enough information!
Guy3: alright The oldest loves strawberry icecream
yes it is solvable
Why were there 3 guys? And how would he know!
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:05 am
by Tasdik
Alterran wrote:tas u cant solve that puzzle there wasnt enough info
I just did.
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:13 am
by Alterran
then how did u come up with the answer?
show us the steps
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:48 am
by Tasdik
Guessing. Most children over the age of 10 don't pick strawberry Ice cream as their favorite. So that means that the oldest would have to be under the age of 10. And since he couldn't be 10 I then tried 9 *which is a factor of 36* so then I simply concluded that the kids were 2,2 and 9 because there's 3 of them.
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:49 am
by crazyskwrls
oh they guy 3 thing was a typo
but all the information was given that are necessary to solve the problme, no house number needed
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:53 am
by Bop
not enough info...there could be many combinations
(3)*(3)*(4)=36
(3)+(3)+(4)=10
house number 10?
HOUSE NUMBER IS NEEDED NOOP! lol
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:53 am
by Mirosuke
Solve What? lol
Answer: I like Vainilla
@topic:
HOUSE NUMBER IS NEEDED NOOP! lol
Yeah, needed.
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:10 am
by Azilius
There are only eight possible combinations of ages which when multiplied together give 36.
1, 1, 36 (sum 38)
1, 2, 18 (sum 21)
1, 3, 12 (sum 16)
1, 4, 9 (sum 14)
1, 6, 6 (sum 13)
2, 2, 9 (sum 13)
2, 3, 6 (sum 11)
3, 3, 4 (sum 10)
Givin the information that the oldest likes strawberry icecream we know that one child has the highest age out of the three. The only numbers that make sense and give enough information are 2-2-9. Given any other house number you could find the ages easily, but when given the number 13 there are two possibilities which need the 'older' comment. It's worded terribly but yea..
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:14 am
by Bop
(720)*(.5)*(.1)=36
(720)+(.5)+(.1)=720.6
then again i never heard of house numbers with decimal number
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:57 am
by crazyskwrls
Azilius wrote:There are only eight possible combinations of ages which when multiplied together give 36.
1, 1, 36 (sum 38)
1, 2, 18 (sum 21)
1, 3, 12 (sum 16)
1, 4, 9 (sum 14)
1, 6, 6 (sum 13)
2, 2, 9 (sum 13)
2, 3, 6 (sum 11)
3, 3, 4 (sum 10)
Givin the information that the oldest likes strawberry icecream we know that one child has the highest age out of the three. The only numbers that make sense and give enough information are 2-2-9. Given any other house number you could find the ages easily, but when given the number 13 there are two possibilities which need the 'older' comment. It's worded terribly but yea..
gives u a cookie
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:01 am
by Tasdik
Azilius wrote:There are only eight possible combinations of ages which when multiplied together give 36.
1, 1, 36 (sum 38)
1, 2, 18 (sum 21)
1, 3, 12 (sum 16)
1, 4, 9 (sum 14)
1, 6, 6 (sum 13)
2, 2, 9 (sum 13)
2, 3, 6 (sum 11)
3, 3, 4 (sum 10)
Givin the information that the oldest likes strawberry icecream we know that one child has the highest age out of the three. The only numbers that make sense and give enough information are 2-2-9. Given any other house number you could find the ages easily, but when given the number 13 there are two possibilities which need the 'older' comment. It's worded terribly but yea..
Google is your friend. But hey I answered first. *nods at his above post*
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:10 am
by crazyskwrls
yeah but ur reasoning is flawed only half a cookie
i got another one but this is turing to be like silo's old thread... i might ress that..
alright there is another
divid the pentagon below into 5 equal pentagons
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:16 am
by Crowley
Can I has cookie nao?
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:25 am
by crazyskwrls
hmmm
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:17 pm
by bryanvan
Lol at aboves post ^^
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:19 pm
by Mirosuke
lol you guys are weird
can i have a cookiez plýz men?
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:35 pm
by Bacardi
Oh that smiley is evrywhere
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:40 pm
by Twist
crazyskwrls you are really crazy, omg
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:42 pm
by NuclearSilo
it's just derived from my riddle, that's all
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=98038&start=240Of course i got the solution.
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:48 pm
by Doron
**** you
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:05 pm
by SidiousX
crazyskwrls wrote:hmmm
Lol i drawed this smiley in my schoolbookwritingthingy some day.. and today i was turning a page and that smiley was there and i had to laugh during college lol...
It was just so random,.. he came outta nowhere.. forgot he wasi n there lol
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:07 pm
by Kirkaldi
1x1x36
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:51 am
by crazyskwrls
Kirkaldi wrote:1x1x36
someone is an accident...
but anyways it's already solved, but no one have solved the pentagon one yet
crazyskwrls wrote:divid the pentagon below into 5 equal pentagons
use how many ever lines you want and make 5 identical pentagons
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:12 am
by NuclearSilo
piece of cake
Re: Solve This :D
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:26 am
by Grimm-.-
