NeoPets Riddles (Lenny Conundrums) and Answers Here

lol!
Holy cow! I have a math test on this stuff TOMORROW! I never in my wildest dreams thought knowing this would come in handy xD

Anyways, this is not an infinite series, just a geometric series...the formula for a geometric series is as follows:

Where Sn is the total, A1 is the first number (31416), r is the rate (40% which is 0.4), and n which is the max term (7300 because 20 years times 365 days in a year is 7300 )

Then when you plug it all in you get 52,360....so even though you guys didnt call it by the correct name, you got it correct!
(and thats all that matters, right? xD)

i bet a lot of ppl will get this one right.. its too easy. anyone who has taken algebra 2 or pre-cal will be able to get this...

total days is actually 7304 or 7305 if you count the leap years, but that doesn't actually factor in.

after the 12th day she will be catching fractions of 1 fish and doesn't really matter

Helping others
Let me say first of all for anyone who will question me that I just came home from work and read the lenny for this week. I then came to this forum for any thoughts on working it out, as I usually do. As such, I do not have much help to offer at this point with the lenny.
For those of you who have decided you're not going to share your answers, well, that's your choice and you're entitled to it. But don't tell us that it's cheating if you DO share, because it's not. This site is NOT the property of Neopets and we are allowed to post anything we please. So no one should be telling anyone that the sharing of answers is cheating, and referring to it as stupid pretty much comes down to being selfish. A lot of people have the trophy and/or avatar, and many more are still trying to get it. We help each other out to get these things...one week I might make it into the 250 with someone's help, and the next week someone else might make it with MY help.
Don't share your answers if you don't want to, but don't look down on the rest of us that choose to do so.

Sahar.

ne one got ne hints (or the answer lmao) to this weeks one??

I will guess that the above means something along the lines of "Does anyone have any hints -- or the answer -- for this week's 'Lenny' puzzle contest?"

If this is a valid translation, then I'm sorry to hear that the forum links aren't working for you (so you weren't able to view preceding pages or even the "Previous" one). If other sites are still working for you, then you might want to send a private note to this site's Admins, asking for help with your account and/or browser settings.

In the meantime, the consensus seems to be as follows:

. . . . .******************
. . . . .** THE ANSWER IS **
. . . . .******************
. . . . .****** 52360 ******
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Hope that helps!

Eliz.

I love the ones with math. I'm good in math. How to get the answer is obviously almost from the second you read them.

Hi everyone!
hi everyone! im new here but ive been looking at everyone's posts for overa month ty for that though ive been in the first 250 people twice! Thanks everyone!

Sorry, stapel. But it's 1. XP Your answer is greater than the starting amount. You would need to multiply .6, not .4. .4 would give you 60%.

Think of it this way: 100-60 is 40. .4 is what you want, so multiply it by .6. If that's confusing, I dunno how to help you.

This one was UBER EASY! At stated a few times above, the answer is 52360. (Using leap years or not, they don't factor in at all). This is actually the first one I understood without needing to come here first! (Sad, I know. I don't do the lenny conundrum much,, though.)

P.S. LegendMaster: No, because the answer is the TOTAL pounds of fish caught, therefore larger. If your confused, Dodobutt 222 has posted the formula for this problem above.

Well, naturally, it's greater!

Each day, she catches less, but the sum total (the first day's catch, plus the second day's, plus the third day's, plus...) has to be greater than the starting amount (the first day's catch only), unless you somehow posit negative numbers of fish. If one arrives at a twenty-year total that is less than the one-day total, obviously one has gone very badly wrong!


Since the riddle says that "she caught exactly 40% of what she caught the previous day", finding and adding sixty percent of her previous day's total would tend to be unhelpful. Multiplying by 0.4 is how one would find the required 40%; multiplying by 0.6 would give you the 60% value, which is not desired. :wink:

To explain: Percentages are converted to decimals by moving the decimal point over to the left two places; you go the other way by moving the decimal point two places to the right. For instance:

. . . . .50% = 0.50 = 0.5

. . . . .0.75 = 75%

. . . . .12.5% = 0.125

. . . . .0.084 = 8.4%

And so forth. To find the fraction or percent "of" some amount, one multiplies by the fraction or the percent (the percent having been converted to decimal form). For instance:

. . . . .one-half of 10: (1/2)(10) = (1/2)(10/1) = 10/2 = 5

. . . . .25% of 12: (0.25)(12) = 3

When you reach middle school, these topics will be covered in greater depth. But I hope the above helps, at least a little bit, in the mean time.

Thank you.

Eliz.

P.S. Since we're now on a new "page", and since the "Previous" button seems not to work for so many Neopians, let's restate the current consensus:

. . . . .******************
. . . . .** THE ANSWER IS **
. . . . .******************
. . . . .****** 52360 ******
. . . . .******************

thank you
i really want to thank everyone in this forum....all people helped me a lot...


thanks and sorry for the bad english :wink:

so 52360 is the answer because i did that answer i guess well have to wait and see

Re: Helping others


Semantics, but it's not cheating to discuss the problem, particularly if you don't even participate in the contest like a number of the forum's veterans. It IS cheating to just wait for the answer and submit it, but this is out of TNT's hands to effectively police. Certainly you are depriving yourself of a rewarding challenge to have the answer handed to you on a silver platter.

Hmm... I think I submitted an answer that was a little off. Damn my mathematical idiocy. xD Got the LC avie though. =D With my 162 answer. Wh00t! I think it was 2 conundrums back. xD

u know what i found was wierd, not that it means anything, n the only reason i found this is cuz my math teacher likes to use these kina #s alot in random riddles. the original number of pounds of fish she caught is the first few digits of pi rounded... lol, it would be funny if it turned out to be some sorta trick question n almost no one got it...

NEW CONUNDRUM
Remove eight letters from the following line and unscramble the remaining letters to find a Neopian word.

U E I L G C R H T K P C L E T H T O E R S A
What's the unscrambled word?

Lenny Conundrum #216
So we have to start coming up with 16-letter Neopian words.

I'm checking the Neopedia.

hi
hi i have no idea about this one =( but i didn't get the top 250 last time because apparently it was too easy...