The worlds first riddle!

I for one am sorry to have to decline your congenial offer, it is only 2pm in LA, far to early to go to bed!!!

What you never heard of spontaneity or are you just a creature of habit?
For the record I never said I was going to sleep either.

Now I ask you; why would you go to bed if not to slumber?
Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE and I never met a chocolate I didn't like. :wink:

I like the really dark chocolate 70% and above.

TTH: You better check your driveway. I ripped off your Firehawk! Don't worry. I won't total it.

You are so cute That's okay, have fun (just bring her back clean!)

Talking of bed and chocolate. I often take cholcolate to bed with me.

WAKE UP WE WANT AN ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE

Earlier post I had chocolate in my mouth!

TTH wrote in large letters, "WAKE UP WE WANT AN ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE"

Woah! Keep the noise down will ya, It's too early for making with the noise. Where the hell is Mark going with that car, is he ever gonna bring it back. I wanna go!




Cute Mark:

TRACK & CAKE
T/44 = T/52 + 1
After 286 seconds, TTH will have gone 6.5 laps to Mark's 5.5.


It would indeed take TTH 4 minutes 46 seconds to lap Mark's ample proportions.



SEQUENCE
89, 100, 101, 102, ..., 198, 199, 800, 801, 802, ..., 898, 899, 1000, 1001, and so on.


The sequence consists of the positive integers (also called natural numbers) beginning with vowels. :wink:



The Cubic foot of coal problem:

TTH:
Whatever weighs more than 50% of the cubic foot of coal.

I am sticking with this answer. If the coal weighs 200 lbs and something weights 50% more=300lbs. Reduce that by 50% and then you have 150lbs which is less than the original cubic weight of the coal=200lbs.

I know what you mean.


Mark:
1.5 cubic feet of coal.


Anything that is 50% heavier than a cubic foot of coal will weigh less when reduced in weight by 50%. Think of it this way: 150 is 50% more than 100, but 50% of 150 (75) is smaller than 100. Which is just what TTH said.





There's a rare disease that's sweeping through A2K. Of all the people that are exposed to it, 0.1 percent of the people actually contract the disease. There are no symptoms until the disease actually occurs, but there is a diagnostic test that can detect the presence of the disease up to a year before it strikes. So you could actually seek treatment.

You go to your doctor and he administers the test. It comes out positive. You say, "I'm done for!"

Then you get a little bit encouraged. You say, "Wait a minute, doc, is this test 100 percent accurate?" Your doctor responds, "Well, not really. It's 95 percent accurate." In other words, 5 percent of the people who take the test will test positive but they won't really have the disease.

Here's the question: What are the chances that you actually have the disease



Two planes headed towards each other, and are currently 440 miles apart. If one is going 240 miles per hour and the other 360 miles per hour, how far apart will they be four minutes before they meet





Who mentioned anything about chocolate?

Extra dark?

[size=8]PLANES
Combined speed is 600mph which is 10mpm (miles per minute). So, four minutes before they meet they will be 40 miles apart.

DISEASE
I assume the test indicates exposure. Otherwise, the 0.1 percent doesn't come into play.

So, there's a 95% chance that you've been exposed. Divide that by 1000 to get the probability of contracting the disease. You have a .095% chance of contracting the disease. There are plenty of other things you should spend time worrying about instead of this. (e.g.: Is my Firehawk going to reappear in my driveway, and in what condition?)[/size]

Chocolate like m & m, reeses, cookies. Normal chocolate.

Just by looking at it I see 40 miles. I do not know why? I do not know what to do with the minutes. I know I do not want to be on either plane though.

I will work on it and get back at ya later. I will work on the disease one too. How do you come up with these anyway?

There are 2 vats of chocolate. One contains 85% chocolate and the other 45% chocolate. TTH wants to eat 4 liters of 70% chocolate. How much chocolate should she take from each vat?

VATS OF CHOCOLATE
[size=8]This is a paradox because she likes crappy milk chocolate.

So, assuming Mark wants 70% chocolate:
.85x + .45(4-x) = .7*4
2.5 liters of 85%, 1.5 liters of 45%

Of course, I might be just as likely to eat the 85% and chuck the 45%...[/size]

Did you peek?

I promised not to total it, but I didn't say I wouldn't give it a new paint job.

Before I hit the sack yesterdays answers. Sorry Mark I cannot cut/paste so I can't see your answers on this laptop, so I will assume they were way out.


A2K syndrome:

Your chances are 1 in 51 (or less than 2 percent).

Only 0.1 percent of the people who were exposed to it actually get it. That's one in a thousand. Now, you tested positive and you figure, I'm done for, especially when you find out the test is 95 percent accurate. But if it is 95% accurate, that means if 1,000 people take the test, 50 people who don't have the disease will test positive.

Fifty-one people out of 1,000 are going to test positive. One of those people is going to have it and 50 are not going to have it.

So your chances of actually having it, even though you tested positive, are one in 51, or a little less than 2 percent.



Trains and boats and planes:

TTH:

Just by looking at it I see 40 miles


You have good eyes; combining their speeds we know that they are closing the gap at 600 miles per hour, which is 10 miles per minute (600 divided by 60 minutes in an hour). Therefore they will go 40 miles in the last four minutes (4 minutes times 10 miles).




Due to circumstances beyond my control, my attendance may well be sporadic, in the meantime.


In past years at the A2K Summer Camp, it could cost a member money for showing up late to a meeting or a practice, for missing breakfast, blowing curfew, or reporting over his or her target weight.

TTH reportedly paid the largest overweight fine in A2K history, some $2,500 for showing up 25 pounds overweight in 1981. The fine was $100 per pound.

Missing breakfast at camp cost a member $2 the first time, $4 the second time, $8 the third time, and so on. Mark, A2K's security man, who checked off every member as they walked through the line, once figured that anyone who skipped breakfast for an entire preseason would owe A2K about $150,000,000.

How many days did the preseason camp last




Here on earth it is true, yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follows today. Where might that be


ADDENDUM: Mark, super paint job on our car share.

Peek at what? When I say looking at it I mean the question. I see part of the answer in my mind, but I do not know why.

At first I thought the color of the car was well, ugly but.....actually I like it, it is different. Nice work.
Unfortunately I cannot do the chocolate question. I do not know metric. They did not teach that when I went to school.