The answer
My bf is pretty advanced in math, he is looking over the question right now, will post as soon as he either confirms the answer of suggests a different one
crazyhorse1949 wrote:There. I hope it's logical.
Logic went by the wayside when you assumed ABE is a right triangle. In fact, ABC is a right triangle (angle C is 90 degrees).
The answer is 364.227 which rounds to 364.
hi
Is this the answer to the one out right now?
markr wrote:The answer is 364.227 which rounds to 364.
I just independently went through the trigonometry and got 364.024 - the difference is probably just differences in rounding error, but I'll vouch for this answer.
My boyfriend did verify 364 after a few hours of work last night, would have posted last night, but I went to bed at 2am and he was still working on the answer....I have choosen 364 as my answer!
Coordinate Geometry
Let's say the Petpet Supplies shop is at (0, 0) and the Defence Magic shop is at (0, 393). Let's also say the coordinates of the Smoothie Store are (sx, sy) and the Grooming Parlour, (gx, gy).
(gx)^2 + (gy)^2 = 314^2
(gx)^2 + (gy - 393)^2 = 236^2
(sx)^2 + (sy)^2 = 655^2
(sx)^2 + (sy - 393)^2 = 524^2
Solve for sx, sy, gx, and gy. There are many sets of solutions. Find one where Sqrt[(gx - sx)^2 + (gy - sy)^2] < 655...
Yeah the answer is 364. It took me a few hours, i gave up. as i am not to bright with math. Went to school and got my math teacher to do it. He got the same answer as me 364 (rounded). and I GOT IT RIGHT!!
Would this newest answer be "What?"
I have no idea... but heres the question..
If you take all 200 Lenny Conundrum questions over the years, the thirteen most common words used are as follows: "the", "of", "a", "to", "and", "in", "is", "he", "you", "that", "was", "on", and "it".
What is the fourteenth most common word used in Lenny Conundrum questions?
I think it is what, or how.
http://ferret.xelam.net/hosted/lennies
Here are all the questions, downloaded using curl, then cutting out the question based on the position of the 'Round:' and 'Answer:' tag using sed, then having the html cut out using html2text -style pretty -nobs
Hope this helps.
EDIT: to actually get the answer, do this:
sed -e 's/\b/\n/g' lennies | tr A-Z a-z | grep '^[a-z]' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r | cat -n | head -n 14
It'll take a few seconds. Make sure the first 13 are exactly as TNT gave (they were for me).
sed
i downloaded sed 4.14, and copied/pasted "sed -e 's/\b/\n/g' lennies | tr A-Z a-z | grep '^[a-z]' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r | cat -n | head -n 14"
It said "tr" isn't a valid command?
Thanks
Yeah, you'd need all those commands :p
cygwin might have them.
I didn't really want to post the answer because (a) I'm not wholly sure that TNT will strip html the exact same way I did and (b) because word boundaries vary: does 'two-sided' count as a use of the word two?
Note also in my list the 14th and 15th place have occurences of 112 and 111 respectively, so it's quite feasible that my answer will be the wrong one. :/
New Lenny
Wow, I don't understand what program you guys are talking about, and I don't think that unless someone spells it out for me I will get it. I got the last one correct though, so I was happy...still no trophies for me though...good luck to those who either know how to do the coding or has the time to figgure this stuff out....
Would one of you mind just saying what you got? I don't know what you are doing...Its ok if it isn't 100%
lenny
Hi,
I found this site last week and it helped to confirm the answer I had already found. But what I used this week maybe wrong, but
I have a list I got off the internet that is the 1200 most frequently used words in the english language. So when I read the question I pulled up a copy that I have on my desk and started checking off the words. They were not in the exact order, but out of the first 14 words they were all the same except for one word was missing. It was the word, 'for'. Good luck to all of us.
I got a different answer but used a similar method... anyone who has microsoft word can easily figure this out with the word search and the list provided, i also used a list of the most common words and checked them off from the top (plus the other common words people mentioned).
