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Riddle Game
Topic Started: May 24 2006, 09:40 PM (6,258 Views)
Sentynel
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Luciene
Jul 13 2006, 09:21 PM
Yah, that's right.

A trout's tail weighs eight pounds. Its head weighs as much as the tail and one-half of the body combined, and the body weighs as much as the head and tail combined. What does the whole trout weigh?

64lb

Big trout!
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This one's good:

An unemployed man walks into a shipping warehouse on the wharf. He goes to the foreman and asks for a job. The foreman says he'll give him a job if he can figure out a problem with 10 bushels of apples. Nine of the bushels are full of apples weighing 1 pound each. But one bushel contains apples weighing 1.1 pound each. All of the bushels contain the same number of apples. The foreman wants to know which bushel has the heavy apples. There is a scale, but he can only make one measurement on the scale. Making only one weight measurement,how can the man find which bushel contains the heavy apples? He can include any combination of bushels or apples on the scale.
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... Dumps 5 apples on one scale and 5 on the other. There'll be a marginal difference...If it ain't one of the mechanical ones...
Shame of the Super Son
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close his eyes and pick a random one...works for exams...
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Eenie, Meanie Miney Mo all the way!!

But no.
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aww...
I love that, after years of not using this forum, my average posts per day is 0.7
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10 bushels can't be done with one measurement... it can definitely be done with three, and possibly two (I can't be bothered to check) but not with one.
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He should find a different job.
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Nope, it can be done. You can take out apples and measure them, and you can measure two or more bushels together if you want
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:gladstone:
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Apocrypha. Stop the smilie spam. Surely you can provide real substance in your posts, right?
流口水的婊子和猴子的笨儿子。
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I guess I can try...
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Do you still need more time or should I post the answer?
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Tell us.
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