12-25-2011, 05:49 PM | #151 |
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sold 49, 28, and 7 bushels @7/$1
1,2, and 3 bushels @1/$3 Nuts.
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12-26-2011, 04:14 AM | #152 |
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: I liked Bigv's answer of zero better.
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12-26-2011, 08:11 AM | #153 |
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When I was a lad, I remember the older generation deriding what we were being taught as the "new math." Like math could somehow change from one generation to the next. But obviously it did.
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12-26-2011, 12:43 PM | #154 |
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12-27-2011, 06:26 AM | #155 |
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If the 2012 asteroid hits just right, we could get some awesome popcorn!
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12-27-2011, 08:05 AM | #157 |
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I think it is a bit of both. and now for the next nut:
(Chrome crashed when I was loading yesterday's nut, so here are two)
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12-27-2011, 08:26 AM | #158 |
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#17 started with 15 cents.
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12-27-2011, 08:30 AM | #159 |
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That's what I get also.
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12-27-2011, 08:32 AM | #160 |
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For #18, >> you have to rent a sheep to get twenty; the first guy gets 10, second 5, third 4, then return the rental sheep.
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12-27-2011, 08:43 AM | #161 |
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#18Get one of the sheep knocked up?
With the ram, ya pervert
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12-27-2011, 11:54 AM | #162 |
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1/2 plus 1/4 plus 1/5 does not equal 1, it equals .95. So 19 is the actual number he left them, not the number he started with. The total number he had was (.95)(x) = 19, so x=20. |
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Nothing in this nut says that 1/2 and 1/4 and 1/5 is the complete list of what was "to get". Nothing says that the "one" who gets is a different heir. I can imagine that the same "one gets" 1/2, and 1/4, and 1/5 (of the sheep??) so this heir gets 19 sheep. Still leaves 1/20th of 19 sheep unallocated. Grrrrrrr... Maybe these "fractions" aren't talking about fractions of the flock of sheep. What about one heir getting half the sheep, another heir getting a quarter (a twenty five cent piece or a $2.50 coin, take your pick) and another gets a jug of shine (a fifth). ... ... What am I gonna do about the other "half of nineteen sheep" (ha fucking ha)?? Quote:
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12-27-2011, 07:33 PM | #164 |
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15 cents
Borrow or rent a sheep Moving on, a very easy one!
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12-27-2011, 08:05 PM | #165 |
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pour three gallons from 8gal cask into 3gal jug leaving five gallons in the 8gal cask
now pour three gallons from the 3gal jug into the 5gal carboy now pour three gallons from the 8gal cask into the 3gal jug leaving 2 gallons in the 8 shit three columns, representing three vessels, 8gal cask, 5gal carboy, 3gal jug each row will always add up to 8 gallons, and the changes, the pours should be obvious. 8--5--3 -------- 8--0--0 (pour 3 from cask to jug, filling jug, to get to the next line) 5--0--3 (pour 3 from jug to carboy, emptying jug, to get to the next line) 5--3--0 (pour 3 from cask to jug, filling jug, to get to the next line) 2--3--3 (pour 2 from jug to carboy, filling carboy, leaving 1 in jug, to get to the next line) 2--5--1 (pour 5 from carboy to cask, emptying carboy, to get to the next line) 7--0--1 (pour 1 from jug to carboy, emptying jug, to get to the next line) 7--1--0 (pour 3 from cask to jug, filling jug, to get to the next line) 4--1--3 (pour 3 from jug to carboy, emptying jug, to get to the next line) 4--4--0 (ta-da!)
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