The worlds first riddle!

I like that. So, quit being me. :wink:
thoh you are too funny

[size=7]LCM of 7 and 17 is 119
So there are 120 if Pat counts Pat or Chris Counts Chris
12/17*119=84 (Pat) So Pat has 84 female friends
5/7*119=85 (Chris) So Chris has 85 female friends So Chris is male as Chris counts Pat.

There are 120 online, 85 Female, 35 Male. Chris is male and Pat female. [/size]

Rap

That's of course correct, thoh. Didn't expect anything else from you!

Damn! I did check my work and still made it 1840

Before I post today's little puzzle, I had better go; ckeck it again!

Thoh:

I am nobody
nobody is perfect
therefore, i am perfect

Well put. That also means you are not the Nobody I lost ten bucks to!

NOMIAL
NOMIAL
NOMIAL = trinomial


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 safety 9 = safety in numbers

TTH:
"What if you are surrounded by alligators and you are in the middle. Would you feel safe?"

Thoh:
"haha good point....but the alligators will feel pretty safe"

That is thinking from the far side, it is ridiculously funny.

CJ:
"Now you solved all the riddles, thoh, and what are we going to do now?
Tweedle our thumbs?"

Thank you for coming up with great questions, however you must remember these guys are very, very smart, and I fear unless they make a typo will never be bettered.


Rap:

LCM of 7 and 17 is 119
So there are 120 if Pat counts Pat or Chris Counts Chris
12/17*119=84 (Pat) So Pat has 84 female friends
5/7*119=85 (Chris) So Chris has 85 female friends So Chris is male as Chris counts Pat.

See what I mean, you can't get a better answer than that!



OK, I think this will work…

Try and Chris are gambling in Atlantic City. When asked to 'put their winnings together,' Try said that the product was "Nine factorial." Chris added that the sum was "Thirty-eight squared."

How much money did each of us win



20 BORED




HO
HO
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[size=7]I got one of you won $1120 and the other $328. But I don't know who won the greater amount.

20board=scoreboard.[/size]
Rap

All I know is 38 squared = 1444
I don't understand your question. Are you saying that 9 has to go evenly into whatever each of their winnings are to add up to 1444?

You said earlier that 20 is a score so is this suppose to be scoreboard?
I don't like it.


I am too tired to think anymore. For some stupid reason watering came to mind. Don't ask.

You meant for Farmer Egli?
Here the break down



Rectangle FHDE: Lenght g , Hight h, also g*h =100. Which means the baseline of the triangle HCD ( 200) is 4g . If you name the baseline of the triangle (the vertical left) AGF as x*h, the hight of the triangle ABG (which has baseline 5g) as y*h, then the hight of the triangle FGH as baseline FH (x-y)*h. For the 2 unknown factors x und y is:

?AHF: g*x*h/2 = 300 + g*(x-y)*h/2

Eliminating the 2 equations (g*x*h/2 on both sides) results in (g*h=100): y = 6.

Therefore the area of the triangle ABG = 5g*y*h/2 = 1500.
results in ?ABF: 5g*x*h/2 = 300 + 1500 = 1800, and x = 7.2.

The blue area (volume = volume ?FBC - volume ?FGH) is
1800 - 1.2g*h/2 = 1740.

The logic of math is still something that amazes me.

My lack of it never does.

Correct version: (1800 - 1.2g*h/2 = 1740)

My version: (1800 - 1.2g*h/2 = 1740 but carry over the 1800 and write 1840) Not once but twice. You have just gotta laugh.


However, to wheedle my way out, how about this as an excuse:

?'Damn! I did check my work and still made it 1840'

CJ, "You meant for Farmer Egli?"


No, of course not, it was in reference to the changes in the Gregorian calendar after the US purchase of Alaska from Russia, which at the time was still on the Julian calendar.




Rap:

I got one of you won $1120 and the other $328 . But I don't know who won the greater amount.



Well let's see, this can be done by looking for two numbers m and n ,
whose PRODUCT (as Try says) is 9! = 9 * 8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 362880, and whose SUM (Chris adds) is 382 = 1444.
So: m * n = 362880 and m + n = 1444, or n = 1444 - m.

Substituting, we get m(1444 - m) = 362880 ; m2 - 1444 m + 362880 = 0 .
Factoring this is the same as looking for two numbers
whose sum is 1444 and product is 362880.

Factor m2 - 1444 m + 362880 = 0
(m-1120)(m-324) = 0
m = 1120 and m = 324
Then n = 324 and 1120

Try and Chris had winnings of $1120 and $324.

And if you want to do it without algebra, make a table of pairs of numbers that add up to 1444, with their products:

Num 1 Num 2 Product
-------- -------- -------
1 . . . . 1443 . . . 1443
2 . . . . 1442 . . . 2884
3 . . . . 1441 . . . 4323
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
323 . . . 1121 . . 362083
324 . . . 1120 . . 362880 . . YES!


20board=scoreboard.


TTH:

You said earlier that 20 is a score so is this suppose to be scoreboard?

"I don't like it."


Your observations have been passed to the adjudication panel, and as a result of their deliberations it has been agreed that; in future only questions you like will be painted.



A, B, C, and D are house painters. The team of A, B, and C can paint my house in 3 days; if A and D work as a pair it takes 6 days; the pair of C and D takes 8 days, and the team of B, C, and D can finish in 5 days.

How long would it take the whole 4-person crew to paint my house


1 D
2 R
3 A
4 C
5 U
6 L
7 A



1/41/41/41/41/41/4

1 D
2 R
3 A
4 C
5 U
6 L
7 A = Count Dracula


1/41/41/41/41/41/4 = close quarters

Stormy, one day you are gonna post the answer before I get to post the question.



CJ, that is a good sign ( ) yes, am I right or what!



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[size=8]PAINTERS
20/7 days (D doesn't contribute much)[/size]


TTH:
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

One definition of score is twenty. Lincoln referred to an event that took place 87 years before his speech. Try's use of score is not as an arbitrary number of points.

missunderstanding
more often than not

20/7 hrs = 2 6/7 hrs
the solution will be left as an exercize to the grader

The Boston marathon starts in 25 minutes, give me a wave if you see me. Catch ya'll later.

Sorry Try, I'll be watching the game instead. That is IF they manage to play in spite of the weather. Have fun dodging the rain drops though.

Next time I'll take my surfboard and fins. I blame the weather which was…


Stormy:

1 D
2 R
3 A
4 C
5 U
6 L
7 A = Count Dracula


1/41/41/41/41/41/4 = close quarters





Mark:

PAINTERS
20/7 days (D doesn't contribute much)


Let A = days A would take to paint the house himself,
B = days for B alone,
C = days for C alone,
and D = days for D alone.

Then A can do 1/A of the house in a day.
If A, B, and C take 3 days, then the fractions for one day give : (1/A) + (1/B) + (1/C) = 1/3 ;
letting small letters a, b, c, d replace 1/A, 1/B, 1/C, 1/D :
we get the linear system
{a + b + c = 1/3 ,
a + d = 1/6 ;
c + d = 1/8 ;
b + c + d = 1/5}.

The solution is :

a = 3/20 , b = 3/40 , c = 13/120 , d =1/60 ;
so that all four together would paint a + b + c + d = 7/20 of the house in a day; it would take 20 / 7 days which is 2 and 6/7 days.
This is 2 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes and change.



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OFTEN = more often than not



Thoh:


20/7 hrs = 2 6/7 hrs






The A-Z of things you do NOT want to find in the tub…



I don't wanna find an Anaconda!

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As you folks know things have been pretty tight down at the ranch, which forced me to sell our sheep milk down at the roadside from ten-quart cans. So you can imagine my embarrassment when Mark and Thoh drove up and each asked for two quarts of milk.

One had a five-quart pail and the other had a four-quart pail.
I had only two ten-quart cans, each full of milk.

How did we measure out exactly two quarts of milk, for each

Oh, and what's the smallest number of pourings needed

And does my butt look big in these coveralls




I am very sorry to hear that 22 people, including the suspected gunman, were killed and many others were wounded at a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech university.

Thank you mark

Now you talk normal and I still don't understand you.

Two bad what? You need a drink you say? Here, no farther.........

.............here








That should last you awhile

Yep, some people will do anything to hurt a complete stranger
I guess they just don't care.