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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22136659 - 08/24/15 05:44 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

I have my supercomputer working on it.


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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22372984 - 10/13/15 11:51 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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PROBLEM #27


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In the United States, at least eight coins are required to make the sum of ninety-nine cents: a half-dollar, a quarter, two dimes, and four pennies.  Imagine yourself the leader of a small, newly independent nation.  You have the task of setting up a system of coinage based on the cent as the smallest unit.  Your objective is to issue the smallest number of different coins that will enable any value from one to one hundred cents (inclusive) to be made with no more than two coins.

For example, the objective is easily met with eighteen coins of the following values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90.

Can you do better?  Every value must be obtainable either by one coin or as the sum of two coins.  The two coins need not, of course, have different values.








With as few as 16 different coins, one can express any value from one cent to one hundred cents as the sum of no more than two coins.  The coins are 1, 3, 4, 9, 11, 16, 20, 25, 30, 34, 39, 41, 46, 47, 49, 50.


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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22372992 - 10/13/15 11:54 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

PROBLEM #28


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"Feemster owns more than a thousand books," said Albert.

"He does not," said George.  "He owns fewer than that."

"Surely he owns at least one book," said Henrietta. 


If only one statement is true, how many books does Feemster own? 




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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #22373006 - 10/13/15 11:58 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

the second statement is correct as he owns no books ? :smile:


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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: deff]
    #22373024 - 10/13/15 12:02 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Correct. 

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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22373041 - 10/13/15 12:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

PROBLEM #29:


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A six-story house (not counting the basement) has stairs of the same length from floor to floor.  How many times as high is a climb from the first to the sixth floor as a climb from the first to the third floor?




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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #22373048 - 10/13/15 12:05 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

two and a half times ? :smile:


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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: deff]
    #22373060 - 10/13/15 12:08 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Absolutely right!

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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22373082 - 10/13/15 12:14 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

PROBLEM #30


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Fill a 3x3 matrix (like a tic-tac-toe square) with nine letters to form ten words that can be read left to right, right to left, up or down, and in either direction along the two diagonals.




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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22385828 - 10/15/15 09:38 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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PROBLEM #30


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Fill a 3x3 matrix (like a tic-tac-toe square) with nine letters to form ten words that can be read left to right, right to left, up or down, and in either direction along the two diagonals.







T  E  A
U  R  N
B  A  Y


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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22386727 - 10/16/15 01:20 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

tea, urn, bay, tub, era, any, but, are, try, bra

:boring:

first time i looked at this thread


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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #22387572 - 10/16/15 09:29 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I was giving the answer.  The problem was to come up with the letters.  No one got it.


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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22387600 - 10/16/15 09:36 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

You only gave us a few hours. That one wasn't very mathematical.


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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22387613 - 10/16/15 09:39 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

PROBLEM #31


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Six glasses are arranged in a row.  The first three glasses are filled with water; the last three glasses are empty.  By moving one glass only, change the arrangement so that the glasses alternate empty with full.




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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #22387641 - 10/16/15 09:47 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

pour the second full cup into the fifth empty cup :smile:

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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: deff]
    #22387661 - 10/16/15 09:52 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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deff said:
pour the second full cup into the fifth empty cup :smile:

xxxooo

xoxoxo





Correct!

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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22387685 - 10/16/15 10:01 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

PROBLEM #32:


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"No," said the mathematician to his 14-year-old son.  "I do not feel inclined to increase your allowance this week by $10.  But I'll make you a sporting proposition."  "What is it this time, Dad?" the boy asked.  The father replied:  "I happen to have ten crisp new $10 bills and ten crisp new $1 bills.  You can divide them any way you want into two sets.  We'll put one set into hat A, the other set into hat B.  Then I'll blindfold you.  I'll mix the contents of each hat and put one hat on the right and one on the left side of the table.  Pick either hat at random, then reach into that hat and take out one bill.  If it's a ten, you can keep it."  The boy asked, "And if it isn't?"  "You'll mow the lawn for a month, with no complaints."  The boy agreed.  How should he divide the twenty bills between the two hats to maximize the probability of his drawing a $10 bill?  What will that probability be?




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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #22387770 - 10/16/15 10:22 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Put one $10 bill in one hat, the rest in the other hat.

Probability of getting a $10 bill

P = 0.5(1) + 0.5(9/19)

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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DisoRDeR]
    #22387818 - 10/16/15 10:35 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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Put one $10 bill in one hat, the rest in the other hat.

Probability of getting a $10 bill

P = 0.5(1) + 0.5(9/19)

= 73.7%





Correct!

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Re: mathematical brain teaser thread [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22387829 - 10/16/15 10:38 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

They were not twins their parents were inseminated lesbians:crazy2:


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