The worlds first riddle!

Tryagain wrote:

'Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell,
An echo caught faintly the sound as it fell;
On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,
And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed;
'Twill be found in the sphere when 'tis riven asunder,
Be seen in the lightning and heard in the thunder.

'Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath,
Attends him at birth, and awaits him in death,
Presides o'er his happiness, honor, and health,
Is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth.
In the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care,
But is sure to be lost on the prodigal heir.

It begins every hope, every wish it must bound,
With the husbandman toils, and with monarchs is crowned.
Without it the soldier, the seaman may roam,
But woe to the wretch who expels it from home!
In the whispers of conscience its voice will be found,
Nor e'en in the whirlwind of passion be drowned.

'Twill not soften the heart; but though deaf be the ear,
It will make it acutely and instantly hear.
Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower,
Ah... breathe on it softly, - it dies in an hour.

I am

The center of who, knows!

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Can not sleep?

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Code:





   TEN

   TEN

+FORTY

------

 SIXTY







    ONE

   NINE

 TWENTY

+ FIFTY

-------

 EIGHTY

The volume of a cube is 125 cubic cm.
What is the number of square centimetres in the surface area of the cube

The average of 10 numbers is 7.2.
When an 11th number is added to the set the average becomes 5. What is the 11th number

Rap knows he needs at least an 85% on his next test to raise his average to 90%.
He looks and sees that the test has 30 questions.
What is the minimum number of questions he must answer correctly

(It is not possible to get a fraction of a question correct).

Happy Holiday. No holiday-bad luck!

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Ok here's one for you to ponder over, says Whim to his friends. How many solutions can you find if you may use a polished piece of metal.

NEL+NOEL+IRIS = NADIA

Whim

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CUBE
150

AVERAGES
-17

RAP TEST
26, but he can't "raise" his average to 90 by scoring less than or equal to 90.

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whimsical wrote:

Ok here's one for you to ponder over, says Whim to his friends. How many solutions can you find if you may use a polished piece of metal.

NEL+NOEL+IRIS = NADIA

Whim

What do you mean by a polished piece of metal?

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TEN+TEN+FORTY=SIXTY
850+850+29786=31486

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Quote:

What do you mean by a polished piece of metal?

for use in an optical instrument.

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Whim

set:

NEL+NOEL+IRIS = NADIA

Well someone has to look a fool, and it may as well be me. Rolling Eyes

NEL + No'EL' =N

Code:



    N

 NOEL

+IRIS

-----

NADIA

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NEL+NOEL+IRIS = NADIA
149 + 1549 + 8682 = 10380
149 + 1649 + 8582 = 10380

I found these by hand, but using an online solver, I found out that there are a total of ten solutions. I don't know what the mirror is for.

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I made a mistake, in thinking that a mirror would work. Creating a new teaser is not always without failures... ;-)
I intended to reverse the position of the letters of the equation to get AIDAN = SIRI + LEON + LEN.
And I was aiming for 19 solutions. Both equations consists of first names.

I really like Try Again's aproach too. So if I drop de mirror addition, we are looking at 14 possible solutions.

Thanks for playing..
Whim

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Mark:
CUBE
150 Cool

AVERAGES
-17 Cool

RAP TEST
26, Cool

but he can't "raise" his average to 90 by scoring less than or equal to 90.

(He should have done better in the earlier part) Laughing

TEN+TEN+FORTY=SIXTY
850+850+29786=31486 Cool

NEL+NOEL+IRIS = NADIA
149 + 1549 + 8682 = 10380
149 + 1649 + 8582 = 10380

"I found these by hand,"

"but using an online solver

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FRACTION
7

GUPPIES
20

SQUARES
21

TRIANGLE
80

BARREL
If the barrel is sealed, he could have replaced the air in it with a lighter-than-air gas.

Were these math problems intended for turtlette?

ONLINE SOLVER
I wasn't interested in taking the time to find all solutions and figured Whim wanted to know how many there are.

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/alphamet/alpha_solve.shtml

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Mark wrote, "Were these math problems intended for turtlette?" Shocked

No way man, they were for her daughter. Laughing

Clever on line solver. Fast too.

Along a straight path from Raleighville to Urbantown the Jones family passes through Sierra and Timeless. The distance from Raleighville to Urbantown is 85 miles. From Raleighville to Timeless is 20 miles, and from Raleighville to Sierra is 48 miles.

How far is it from Sierra to Urbantown Question

An antique dealer bought an old clock for $30 and sold it for $40. He later bought it back for $50, and then resold it for $60.

Did he make money or lose money after completing these transactions Question

At the amusement park, there is a ride through the Haunted House. Each boat holds 8 people, and there are 3 boats. The ride takes 10 minutes. There are still 150 people in the line, and the ride closes in exactly one hour.

Will all the people be able to ride through the Haunted House Question

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Haunted house ride: Leaving aside the obvious question of why the haunted house ride is using boats, I'd say that yes, everyone will get to ride through.

Let's say the last ride goes at 6:00 p.m., then it is now 5:00 p.m. There will be rides at 5:00, 5:10, 5:20, 5:30, 5:40, 5:50, and 6:00.

At 24 marks per ride, that allows 168 riders.

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Sierra to urbantown is (85-48)=37mi

income=$100 outgo=$80 the dealer made $20 unless profit was eaten by repair

an hour consists of 60 minutes, that time for six trips by the three boats (6*3=18) 8 people per boat gives 144 rides in an hour at full capacity--so no, 150 people can't get on the ride in an hour.

Diophantus' Age Problem

Diophantus, the Greek mathematician known as the "Father of Algebra", supposedly had the following inscribed on his tombstone:

"Diophantus passed 1/6th of his life in childhood, 1/12th in youth, and 1/7th more as a bachelor.
Five years after his marriage, there was born a son who died four years before his father, at half his father's age."

Rap

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Diophantus' Age Problem

84 (the easy way to do this is 12x7 = 84, the smallest number divisible by 6, 12, and 7)

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Turtlette's daughter is fast? Shocked

What's her number?

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markr wrote:

ONLINE SOLVER
I wasn't interested in taking the time to find all solutions and figured Whim wanted to know how many there are.

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/alphamet/alpha_solve.shtml

I wish you hadn't shown me this---but I'd like to see the routine"

Rap

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raprap wrote:

I wish you hadn't shown me this---but I'd like to see the routine"

Rap

Here's another site that has C code.

http://bach.istc.kobe-u.ac.jp/llp/crypt.html

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