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11. ?
12. ?
13. Marijuana!!!!......Uhhmm, I mean Candles!!
14. The Morning Paper
15. You get laid, orIt rains (It depends on your definition of "a dry spell")
16. ?
17. ????
18. On the head
19. Fence.going on the "freeway" rational so no credit here!
20. Shingles.same as above

Lastly..the trick question! Answer is 50% . Being that you uncovered one of the coins already!
It would be a 25% chance that both turned "heads" before you told us the outcome of one of them! I'm also foreign and don't know if both a dime and penny have a "head" side. But lets assume they both do.
Rolling Eyes

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Great!....my screen hadn't refreshed when I posted, so didn't know you were there already. Besides, yours were way better I see the logic with 1/3 chance if you are asking the odd of both coins together! but we are just asking for the odds of one coin individually....wouldn't that be 50%??

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There is more than 3 different outcomes on the coins....If they were both pennies or both dimes,....then yes, just 3 outcomes...(H,H)(T,T)(T,H or H,T). But we have 2 different coins....a dime and a penny! So there are four different outcomes....thus 25%.

Penny: Heads Dime: Heads
Penny: Heads Dime: Tails
Penny: Tails Dime: Heads
Penny: Tails Dime: Tails

With only Pennies or only Dimes...the two middle outcomes are identical, so become one (leaving 3 possible outcomes).....with 2 different coins there are 4 possible outcomes....No???? Or did I smoke too much today?

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Zipote wrote, "I'm also foreign"

My dear Zippo I am so sorry, I did not know. Please accept my symphony. By the way, are you French, are you from the French Foreign Legion? Laughing

The fun is over. Twisted Evil

Let's get serious.

What is the area of the triangle bounded by the positive x-axis, the y-axis and the straight line 2x+y =4 Question

Use the number line and the associated points shown.
<----A(-3)----B(-2)----C(-1)----0----D(1)----E(2)----F(3)----4--->

1) Determine BD Question

2) Determine BD + DF Question

3) Determine AE -- CE Question

The sum of two angles is a straight angle. The degree measure of one angle is 12 more than twice the degree measure of the other. What is the degree measure of each angle

Drew used a time line for history class to show the important dates in the U.S. history from 1607 to 1999. What date should be represented at the midpoint of the line

Late update: Please read the coin question VERY carefully as the answer may well annoy.

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I am not French, but Spanish.
"My dear Zippo I am so sorry"
Me too Tryagain! It is so unfortunate that I couldn't have been born American, drive a Cadillac, drink Bud and eat corndogs, go bowling on the weekends, and live under the greatest and only true democracy on the planet!
Laughing

Thanks for this latest question...less play on words...I like! No clue thus far though...need pen and paper...

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Hola, Zipote! Que tal?

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Interaresting!!!! Estas en los estates o por aqui?
Can you believe what we need to put up with around here??? Laughing

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[size=7]TRIANGLE
4 square units

NUMBER LINE
BD=3
BD+DF=5
AE-CE=2

ANGLES
56, 124

HISTORY
1803[/size]
COIN
Will I be annoyed?

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zipote wrote:

Interaresting!!!! Estas en los estates o por aqui?
Can you believe what we need to put up with around here???

No estoy en los estates. Y "por aqui" donde es?

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zipote wrote:

There is more than 3 different outcomes on the coins....If they were both pennies or both dimes,....then yes, just 3 outcomes...(H,H)(T,T)(T,H or H,T). But we have 2 different coins....a dime and a penny! So there are four different outcomes....thus 25%.

Penny: Heads Dime: Heads
Penny: Heads Dime: Tails
Penny: Tails Dime: Heads
Penny: Tails Dime: Tails

With only Pennies or only Dimes...the two middle outcomes are identical, so become one (leaving 3 possible outcomes).....with 2 different coins there are 4 possible outcomes....No???? Or did I smoke too much today?

You can't combine the middle outcomes if the coins are the same.

You are correct about the four possible outcomes. However, we are told that one (I assume this means at least one) coin is heads. That rules out the fourth possible outcome. One of the three remaining outcomes has the other coin as heads.

Had the problem state that the penny (or dime) was heads, then the probability would be 1/2 that the other coins was also heads.

Perhaps this is a trick question and "one" means exactly one. In that case, the answer is 0. That might be annoying...

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España!!

Bloody hell!!!
New rule!.....Markr has to wait atleat 3 hours after a question before posting an answer! Smile

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TWO COIN FLIPS
I flip a penny and a dime and hide the result from you. "One of the coins came up heads", I announce. What is the chance that the other coin also came up heads?

ZERO! I did say "one of the coins came up heads!

Mark, "Perhaps this is a trick question and "one" means exactly one. In that case, the answer is 0. That might be annoying..."

Damn, that is annoying.

Zippo wrote, "New rule!.....Markr has to wait at least 3 hours after a question before posting an answer!" Laughing

Mark is our resident in-house genius, although he is too modest to claim such a title. However, even the mighty have been known to trip over an occasional corn dog.

?'BD+DF=5' Shocked

BTW, El Cid is one of my all time heroes. Cool

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Tryagain wrote:

BTW, El Cid is one of my all time heroes.

Te gusta Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar?

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Ha ha ha ha!!!!!....so the game is still on then!

P.S. Mine too!

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We need more recruits!!!! This has to be one of the best forums I've ever come across, ....but we need more input......2 jenius's ruling the board against us commoners is no contest!!!

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Time to time I participate...

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Francois, vous etes Francaise? Pardom ma gramatique!

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Am I too late?

Triangle
b=2 h=4 A=1/2bh=4

Line
BD=|2-(-2)|=4
BD+DF=4+|3-1|=4+3=7
AE-CE=|2-(-3)|-|2-(-1)|=5-3=2

Angle
x+y=180 deg (straight line angle)
x-y=12 deg
2x=192 deg
x=96 deg
y=84 deg

Midpoint
n-1607=1999-n
2n=1999+1607=3606
n=1803 (I'd accept 1800, this ain't Rocket Science)

Coins
Initial possibilities
HH
HT
TH
TT
But one is known to be heads
Remaining possibilities
HH
HT
TH
The odds are two out of three it's a tails.
Rap

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Zipote wrote:

"New rule!.....Markr has to wait at least 3 hours after a question before posting an answer!"

Hey, Rap has three hours on me! You're probably just kidding, but at another site that I frequent, they have a hide feature. It allows others to view the problems without seeing answers. My responses with white text and a small font are an attempt to hide (for those who don't want to see) my answers.

Tryagain wrote:

Mark is our resident in-house genius, although he is too modest to claim such a title. However, even the mighty have been known to trip over an occasional corn dog.

?'BD+DF=5'

I'm no genius, but I do know that if Try says I'm wrong, there's a decent chance I'm not. Razz

<----A(-3)----B(-2)----C(-1)----0----D(1)----E(2)----F(3)----4--->

?'BD+DF=5'

BD = 1 - (-2) = 1 + 2 = 3
DF = 3 - 1 = 2
3 + 2 = 5

Notice that Rap took the same approach (although he arrived at different results Question

).

Perhaps instead of distance BD + distance DF, you meant (here we go again!) B*D + D*F.
In that case,
BD+DF = (-2) * 1 + 1 * 3 = -2 + 3 = 1.

I suspect this was intentionally made vague. :wink:

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No need to go easy on the foreigners!!!
We inveted velcro!!!!!!!!!! Laughing

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