Even with "like a really big brain"?
Are You A Genius?
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the skipper
Professional Curmudgeon
While we're at it, here's one for ya.
Three friends have a nice meal together, and the bill is $25
The three friends pay $10 each, which the waiter gives to the Cashier
The Cashier hands back $5 to the Waiter
But the Waiter can't split $5 three ways, so he gives the friends one dollar each and keeps 2 dollars as a tip.
There were three of them 3 X $9 so they all paid $27
They each paid $27 and the waiter kept $2: $27 + $2 = $29
Where did the other dollar go?
Three friends have a nice meal together, and the bill is $25
The three friends pay $10 each, which the waiter gives to the Cashier
The Cashier hands back $5 to the Waiter
But the Waiter can't split $5 three ways, so he gives the friends one dollar each and keeps 2 dollars as a tip.
There were three of them 3 X $9 so they all paid $27
They each paid $27 and the waiter kept $2: $27 + $2 = $29
Where did the other dollar go?
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SoCal Sam
Lunatic Member
The other dollar went no where. The three paid a combined $25 meal plus $2 tip. The three they got back was change for 30.
onepixel
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OnTheBlitz
<-Say Hello to my Little Friends
My IQ:
Genius is incalculable and is beyond numbersIt's just numbers, you.
Then you put in the sands, then it will fit.
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Made me laugh out loud.
Yes you can tell from their hair.
Grenadeslio
Lunatic Member
In their ears or their nose?
In the wind.
Shominy
Lunatic Member
Theorem: 4 = 5
'Proof':
-20 = -20 (obviously...)
16 - 36 = 25 - 45 (just two different ways to write -20)
4^2 - 9*4 = 5^2 - 9*5 (factoring...)
4^2 - 9*4 + 81/4 = 5^2 - 9*5 + 81/4 (add 81/4 to both sides)
(4 - 9/2)^2 = (5 - 9/2)^2 ("completing the square")
4 - 9/2 = 5 - 9/2 (get rid of the squares)
4 = 5 (cancel the 9/2 from both sides)
QED.
'Proof':
-20 = -20 (obviously...)
16 - 36 = 25 - 45 (just two different ways to write -20)
4^2 - 9*4 = 5^2 - 9*5 (factoring...)
4^2 - 9*4 + 81/4 = 5^2 - 9*5 + 81/4 (add 81/4 to both sides)
(4 - 9/2)^2 = (5 - 9/2)^2 ("completing the square")
4 - 9/2 = 5 - 9/2 (get rid of the squares)
4 = 5 (cancel the 9/2 from both sides)
QED.
OnTheBlitz
<-Say Hello to my Little Friends
^^What he said^^
SolderIron
Super Member
Don't know if I am one. I am rated very high in eating and sleeping.
To answer the OP topic, in a word, yes.
btw, Q1
if x = cost of ball
x+1 = cost of bat
x+x+1 = 1.10
2x +1 = 1.10
2x = .10
x=.05
8th grade algebra IIRC
btw, Q1
if x = cost of ball
x+1 = cost of bat
x+x+1 = 1.10
2x +1 = 1.10
2x = .10
x=.05
8th grade algebra IIRC
To the IRS
or: $30 was put in play
the store kept 25
the wiater kept 2
3 was disbursed back to the patrons.
"follow the money"
to fall prey to that trick you are using a future state to redefine a initial state. its sorta a logic error
biscuithead
Me likes the eargasm retroplasm...
Grenadeslio
Lunatic Member
- There are five houses.
- The Englishman lives in the red house.
- The Spaniard owns the dog.
- Coffee is drunk in the green house.
- The Ukrainian drinks tea.
- The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
- The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
- Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
- Milk is drunk in the middle house.
- The Norwegian lives in the first house.
- The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
- Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.
- The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
- The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
In the interest of clarity, it must be added that each of the five houses is painted a different color, and their inhabitants are of different national extractions, own different pets, drink different beverages and smoke different brands of American cigarets [sic]. One other thing: in statement 6, right means your right.
