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Easy riddles... let see how long it takes someone to get them!
tmasman:
--- Quote from: RoboG2 on March 17, 2005, 07:48:45 am ---Here's another:
You are in the attic of a building. On the wall are three numbered light switches.
Down in the basement are three numbered light bulbs, each is connected to one switch. You don't know which switch is connected to which light. You do know that they are all off to start with.
You can do what you like with the switches, but once you leave the attic, the attic door will lock and you can't get back in.
The only place you can go to is the basement (three floors down).
Which bulb is connected to which switch?
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I'm assuming all the switches are in the same position (down) to start with (On or off doesn't matter)...
Switches 1, 2, 3...
Flip switches 1 & 2 ... Leave them that way for about an hour... Flip switch 2 back.
Go to the basement...
If the lights were OFF to begin with...
You'll have switch 1's light on,
Switch 2's 1 lightbulb will be warm, &
switch 3's off.
If the lights were ON to begin with...
Switch 1's will be off,
Switch 2 & 3 will be on, but switch 2's light won't be as hot.
Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all week.
tmasman:
--- Quote from: nipsmg on March 17, 2005, 08:35:15 am ---No they didn't each pay $9. They each paid something like $8.33 a piece, and the bellhop stole from them.
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I think it was more like $9.33... But you had the right idea.
Grasshopper:
The first riddle is easy. The guys paid $9 each making $27 in total. The hotel charged them $25 (once the $5 refund is taken into account). The $2 difference was pocketed by the bellhop.
The final sentence should read something like 'Nine times three is twenty-seven, MINUS the two the bellhop kept makes TWENTY FIVE'.
drunkatuw:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on March 17, 2005, 02:36:22 pm ---The first riddle is easy. The guys paid $9 each making $27 in total. The hotel charged them $25 (once the $5 refund is taken into account). The $2 difference was pocketed by the bellhop.
The final sentence should read something like 'Nine times three is twenty-seven, MINUS the two the bellhop kept makes TWENTY FIVE'.
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I like this solution much better. I don't see how they could each have paid $9.33. If I gave someone $10 and they gave me back a dollar, there is no way I paid anything other than $9.
Edit: Now I see what others were saying, $8.33 of the $9 they spent went towards the hotel room, and the additional $0.67 (x3=$2) was stolen by the bellhop.
Shape D.:
well technically they paid $9.333333333333333333333333333333333333