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The number of hairs on their heads is 0 through 517.[/size]

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Tryagain wrote:

"You are asking for it."

Bring it onlet's do this thing!

So, lets see if you can answer this Tryagain. Do not bother to google it either because you will not find the answer. I was going to go with something different but decided this may be a bit more challenging.

Here is your sequence of numbers:
1,1,4,4,4,501,501,501,501,3,3,3,3,3,_

what number or numbers come next?

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I really do not expect you to get the right answer. If you do I will be that much more impressed by your knowledge (which means I already am!).

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Tryagain wrote:

A fruit grower wants to transport his 3000 juicy CA oranges 1000 miles across the desert to the market. (Yep, it is a big state) All Mark can use is his one camel which can carry 1000 oranges at once but it needs to eat one orange to walk one mile (that is the camel not Mark, regardless of how many oranges it is carrying).

The way I see it;
1000 miles
3000 oranges
1000 oranges max per trip
One orange eaten per mile
= zero oranges at the end.

What do ya'll think
How many oranges can Mark get to market

I'm gonna say [size=7]533[/size] oranges. If you get more than that, i didn't partition it far enough. If you get less, I'll explain how I got that number but now too lazy Razz

And here's a riddle. WHERE DOES MY USERNAME COME FROM?

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TTH: Yeah, I'm in school. 4th week now. This semester is very laid back compared to all my other ones. And weeeee I'm a TA now Razz

I'm writing here b/c I still got that crazy message:

"You have not met the PM privilege requirements for sending out PMs. Access to PMs is given to users after a period of good standing during which they have been active members of the community."

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TTH:
An obvious conclusion is that the next six numbers are the same.
Is this a mathematical sequence, or is it based on trivia?

thoh13:
Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 13 (Send in the Clones, The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms, The Island of Dr. Hibbert)

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markr wrote:

TTH:
An obvious conclusion is that the next six numbers are the same.
Is this a mathematical sequence, or is it based on trivia?

thoh13:
Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 13 (Send in the Clones, The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms, The Island of Dr. Hibbert)

YUP.

and I googled TTH's sequence and nothing spectacular came up...

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thoh13 wrote:

TTH: Yeah, I'm in school. 4th week now. This semester is very laid back compared to all my other ones. And weeeee I'm a TA now

I'm writing here b/c I still got that crazy message:

"You have not met the PM privilege requirements for sending out PMs. Access to PMs is given to users after a period of good standing during which they have been active members of the community."

Well congrats on becoming a TA!!
What? Not a user of "good standing in the community during..." I beg to differ. I hope you get that pm privilege soon just because.

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markr wrote:

TTH:
An obvious conclusion is that the next six numbers are the same.
Is this a mathematical sequence, or is it based on trivia?

It has a number sequence. It is not trivia. It is personal to Tryagain, not myself. Mark there is no way you will get the answer. I do not think Tryagain is going to get it either so maybe I have stumped the teacher after all. Razz

We have to wait and see if Tryagain can figure it out.

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thoh13 wrote:

markr wrote:
TTH:
An obvious conclusion is that the next six numbers are the same.

YUP.

and I googled TTH's sequence and nothing spectacular came up...

The conclusion is not obvious and like I said you will not find it by using google. I was not going to give Tryagain a hint, but I already did by telling him it is personal to him. I would like to think there is no way he will get it and I have finally stumped him. Once I do reveal the answer it will be obvious to him. We will just have to wait and see.

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thoh13 wrote:

WHERE DOES MY USERNAME COME FROM?

Well either it comes from you or I have to agree with mark on his conclusion.
Mark you have a pm Rolling Eyes

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Tryagain wrote:

Yes, we have no oranges:

A fruit grower wants to transport his 3000 juicy CA oranges 1000 miles across the desert to the market. (Yep, it is a big state) All Mark can use is his one camel which can carry 1000 oranges at once but it needs to eat one orange to walk one mile (that is the camel not Mark, regardless of how many oranges it is carrying).

The way I see it;
1000 miles
3000 oranges
1000 oranges max per trip
One orange eaten per mile
= zero oranges at the end.

What do ya'll think
How many oranges can Mark get to market

Tryagain, I think I prefer being a trivia nerd. I know the answer is not zero. I also know this is not the answer, but I liked it and it was easy: Just make the damn camel run and then you do not have to feed it and then mark can take all 3000 oranges to the market. Technically, it could be an answer because you said the camel walked. Razz

Okay, I know that is also not the answer. Rolling Eyes

I did come up with an answer, but the truth is I do not have a formula on exactly how I did it. I started out with taking guesses on how far this camel should walk and how many he should carry and stop to drop some off to go back and get more. That made sense to me. I actually have 2 pages of writing. I figured the whole idea is to get as far as possible with as many as possible in as few trips as possible.
I came up with taking 1000 oranges 200 miles, drop off 600, then go back (eating the other 200 of course) x 2 = 1200 then going back a last time and picking up the remaining 1000 and stopping at that 200 miles which gives a total of 1200 + 800 = 2000 oranges. There is still 800 miles to go. This is where I had a problem. I took 800/3=267 rounded. So, take 1000/3=333. So, go 333 miles out, drop off 333 oranges and eat 333 oranges back. Pick up the remaining 1000 oranges and go 333 miles. So now you have traveled 200 + 333 = 533 miles and have 333 + 1000 - 333 = 1000 oranges left. You still have 1000 - 533 = 467 miles left to travel so you can take 533 oranges to the market. Somewhere mark ate one because I cannot account for the extra one missing. Now there has to be a formula and a much simpler way to figure this out I just do not know it. Sad

That is assuming I am even close to the right answer. Confused

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Mark you had said I tended to avoid the math problems and this is why. Some make sense to me and some do not. This one did only to a point, but I have no formula and had to start out with guesses at the beginning and that requires me to think. I try to avoid that as much as possible. I like to learn, but I do not like to do math problems where I have to take guesses to get the starting number because of the time involved. That is why I have 2 pages of writing. This is probably considered an easy problem, but I turn it into a hard one which just shows my ignorance I guess you could say and I do not mind admitting when I am ignorant of a subject matter.

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Since Tryagain bailed out on us-- Stormwatch, thoh or mark please feel free to help me out on the orange dilemma. Believe me I could use the help.

Also, thoh and mark I hope you do not mind me shortening your user names. If you do then please feel free to say so.

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Oh yeah Happy Valentines Day to all of you.

I feel like a broken record but, the change in avatar for me is because I am hiding from someone. Rolling Eyes

I rather be myself so until I know they are no longer actively looking I have to stay a fictional picture.

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i just had two snow days at the university......it was fun not having 6 hrs of class

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tryingtohelp wrote:

Since Tryagain bailed out on us-- Stormwatch, thoh or mark please feel free to help me out on the orange dilemma. Believe me I could use the help.

Also, thoh and mark I hope you do not mind me shortening your user names. If you do then please feel free to say so.

i dont mind at all

and i think i should churn out more replies so that i become in good standing haha

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Okay, I deserved that and I think it was funny. Laughing

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