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[Farvacola]

jo mama

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: amish
ummm....pete and repeat were on a boat. pete fell off, who was left?

Skywalker. He was asking them if mermaids were both hot and easy.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Originally posted by: amish
ummm....pete and repeat were on a boat. pete fell off, who was left?

Smeagol?

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: amish
ummm....pete and repeat were on a boat. pete fell off, who was left?

Skywalker. He was asking them if mermaids were both hot and easy.

Would there still be that tuna smell on mermaids' ... oh nm

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: amish
ummm....pete and repeat were on a boat. pete fell off, who was left?

Skywalker. He was asking them if mermaids were both hot and easy. and also he wanted to know if they were in to guys with low self esteem and some flab

fixed!

 

[shuan24]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x
Yea i didnt google but i came up with Die of old age

If I were the king then I'd let you die of old age....in your jail cell!

 

[blackdogdeek]

there are 4 people in a car. there is 1 umbrella which fits 2 people at a time. it is raining and they must get to the house without getting wet. after reaching the house, one person must walk back with the umbrella so the next couple can walk to the house. a couple can only walk as fast as the slowest person in the couple. what is the least amount of time it will take to get everyone to the house if:

one person takes 10 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 5 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 2 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 1 minute to walk the distance from the car to the house.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
there are 4 people in a car. there is 1 umbrella which fits 2 people at a time. it is raining and they must get to the house without getting wet. after reaching the house, one person must walk back with the umbrella so the next couple can walk to the house. a couple can only walk as fast as the slowest person in the couple. what is the least amount of time it will take to get everyone to the house if:

one person takes 10 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 5 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 2 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 1 minute to walk the distance from the car to the house.

19?

 

[FFactory0x]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
there are 4 people in a car. there is 1 umbrella which fits 2 people at a time. it is raining and they must get to the house without getting wet. after reaching the house, one person must walk back with the umbrella so the next couple can walk to the house. a couple can only walk as fast as the slowest person in the couple. what is the least amount of time it will take to get everyone to the house if:

one person takes 10 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 5 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 2 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 1 minute to walk the distance from the car to the house.

I say they drive the car straight through the front door and not even use an umbrella

 

[FFactory0x]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
there are 4 people in a car. there is 1 umbrella which fits 2 people at a time. it is raining and they must get to the house without getting wet. after reaching the house, one person must walk back with the umbrella so the next couple can walk to the house. a couple can only walk as fast as the slowest person in the couple. what is the least amount of time it will take to get everyone to the house if:

one person takes 10 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 5 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 2 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 1 minute to walk the distance from the car to the house.

I say they drive the car straight through the front door and not even use an umbrella

Yea i got 19min cause if the 1min guy goes back and forth, it will take him one min to get back to the car + how long the slow person takes

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x

Originally posted by: FFactory0x

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
there are 4 people in a car. there is 1 umbrella which fits 2 people at a time. it is raining and they must get to the house without getting wet. after reaching the house, one person must walk back with the umbrella so the next couple can walk to the house. a couple can only walk as fast as the slowest person in the couple. what is the least amount of time it will take to get everyone to the house if:

one person takes 10 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 5 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 2 minutes to walk the distance from the car to the house.
one person takes 1 minute to walk the distance from the car to the house.

I say they drive the car straight through the front door and not even use an umbrella

Yea i got 19min cause if the 1min guy goes back and forth, it will take him one min to get back to the car + how long the slow person takes

1) 1 and 2 walk across = 2 minutes
2) 1 walks back = 1 minute
3) 5 and 10 walk across = 10 minutes
4) 2 walks back = 2 minutes
5) 1 and 2 walk across = 2 minutes

Total: 2+1+10+2+2 = 17 minutes

 

[TuxDave]

I posted this a while back.

A king has 1000 bottles of wine and 10 servants. One of the bottles has a poison that will kill the drinker in 24 hours. Using his servants as test subjects, how can the king find out which bottle is poisoned in 24 hours?

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I posted this a while back.

A king has 1000 bottles of wine and 10 servants. One of the bottles has a poison that will kill the drinker in 24 hours. Using his servants as test subjects, how can the king find out which bottle is poisoned in 24 hours?

Kill them in 24 hours exactly?

 

[Sultan]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I posted this a while back.

A king has 1000 bottles of wine and 10 servants. One of the bottles has a poison that will kill the drinker in 24 hours. Using his servants as test subjects, how can the king find out which bottle is poisoned in 24 hours?

i'd like to know the answer to that

 

[Amused]

I have a riddle for the OP:

How do you spell "found?"

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I posted this a while back.

A king has 1000 bottles of wine and 10 servants. One of the bottles has a poison that will kill the drinker in 24 hours. Using his servants as test subjects, how can the king find out which bottle is poisoned in 24 hours?

Kill them in 24 hours exactly?

Well, I don't want to get into the details of timing... so let's assume the servant and drink an arbitrary selection of wine bottles instantaneously and they will die in EXACTLY 24 hours and you need to find out in EXACTLY 24 hours. And when they die, they instantaneously vaporize... and um... you can make this decision of who drinks what in zero time and etc....

 

[daveshel]

Originally posted by: Sultan

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I posted this a while back.

A king has 1000 bottles of wine and 10 servants. One of the bottles has a poison that will kill the drinker in 24 hours. Using his servants as test subjects, how can the king find out which bottle is poisoned in 24 hours?

i'd like to know the answer to that

Wait - I still want to know why 25 stubs makes 6 cigars.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: daveshel

Originally posted by: Sultan

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I posted this a while back.

A king has 1000 bottles of wine and 10 servants. One of the bottles has a poison that will kill the drinker in 24 hours. Using his servants as test subjects, how can the king find out which bottle is poisoned in 24 hours?

i'd like to know the answer to that

Wait - I still want to know why 25 stubs makes 6 cigars.

Draw it out on paper, it'll help you.

You have to realize that a stub comes from a whole cigar and only a whole cigar. The guy is MAKING "whole cigars" with his 25 stubs. So once he smokes one of them, he has one stub left over. After he's smoked 5, he now has 5 stubs left, 1 from each cigar. With those 5, he makes one last cigar.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: daveshel
Wait - I still want to know why 25 stubs makes 6 cigars.

Since 5 stubs = 1 cigar, 1 stub = 1/5 of a cigar. You have 25 stubs so you can make them in to 5 cigars. When you smoke those 5 you are left with 5 stubs. Those 5 stubs can be made in to 1 cigar. You smoke that and are left with 1 stub. You can't make any more cigars so you have smoked 6.

 

[pol II]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I posted this a while back.

A king has 1000 bottles of wine and 10 servants. One of the bottles has a poison that will kill the drinker in 24 hours. Using his servants as test subjects, how can the king find out which bottle is poisoned in 24 hours?

The best I can do is this:

Each servant drinks a mixture of 100 bottles; bottles 1-100 go te servant #1, bottles 101-200 go to servant #2, etc. Twenty-four hours later, one servant will die. We will then know that a certain 900 bottles are safe to drink. The servant that died had drank the poisoned bottle diluted with 99 other safe bottles. We could continue the mixing of the bottles' contents until we found out which one was the poisoned bottle, but that would exceed the 24-hour time limit. Since the 24-hours is up, I guess the king will have to toss those 100 bottles and be satisfied with a paltry 900.

Bah, there's got to be a way to ID that one single bottle...

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

1) 1 and 2 walk across = 2 minutes
2) 1 walks back = 1 minute
3) 5 and 10 walk across = 10 minutes
4) 2 walks back = 2 minutes
5) 1 and 2 walk across = 2 minutes

Total: 2+1+10+2+2 = 17 minutes

:thumbsup:

 

[shuan24]

Originally posted by: pol II

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I posted this a while back.

A king has 1000 bottles of wine and 10 servants. One of the bottles has a poison that will kill the drinker in 24 hours. Using his servants as test subjects, how can the king find out which bottle is poisoned in 24 hours?

The best I can do is this:

Each servant drinks a mixture of 100 bottles; bottles 1-100 go te servant #1, bottles 101-200 go to servant #2, etc. Twenty-four hours later, one servant will die. We will then know that a certain 900 bottles are safe to drink. The servant that died had drank the poisoned bottle diluted with 99 other safe bottles. We could continue the mixing of the bottles' contents until we found out which one was the poisoned bottle, but that would exceed the 24-hour time limit. Since the 24-hours is up, I guess the king will have to toss those 100 bottles and be satisfied with a paltry 900.

Bah, there's got to be a way to ID that one single bottle...

I hope it's not a really dumb answer like "it tastes different" or something.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: shuan24

Originally posted by: pol II

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I posted this a while back.

A king has 1000 bottles of wine and 10 servants. One of the bottles has a poison that will kill the drinker in 24 hours. Using his servants as test subjects, how can the king find out which bottle is poisoned in 24 hours?

The best I can do is this:

Each servant drinks a mixture of 100 bottles; bottles 1-100 go te servant #1, bottles 101-200 go to servant #2, etc. Twenty-four hours later, one servant will die. We will then know that a certain 900 bottles are safe to drink. The servant that died had drank the poisoned bottle diluted with 99 other safe bottles. We could continue the mixing of the bottles' contents until we found out which one was the poisoned bottle, but that would exceed the 24-hour time limit. Since the 24-hours is up, I guess the king will have to toss those 100 bottles and be satisfied with a paltry 900.

Bah, there's got to be a way to ID that one single bottle...

I hope it's not a really dumb answer like "it tastes different" or something.

Nope... it's not a dumb answer. Any requests for the answer? A small hint? Or a BIG HINT?

 

[shuan24]

Hook it up! 😀;

 

[mobobuff]

I googled the answer already. The funness of the solution is lost in mathematics and steps.