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Fri 1 Nov, 2002 04:41 pm
If a hair anf a 1/2 costs a cent and a 1/2, how much do 12 hairs cost?
Hey, I don't have to add anything here....Any new math riddle???
Hey craven wrong answer
Study it more in depth, the answer is not 12, if you actually disect it and use mathmatics.
If it's not 12 it's not math but a language riddle.
Though craven you need to study the language to use the proper math, to get the answer so would it not fall under both.
I don't see how it could be anything but 12. Unless the words are intended to trick. I won't look for it but when the answer is found I'll see. I could easily be wrong but in a riddle this simple don't see how. Wouldn't have been the first time I didn't see it though.
Hey Mellow,
how long is that one hair? And how those 12???
Craven is right, I can't see any other answer to this one but 12.
Alexandra
ps. if this is a tricky riddle, than the answer could be also cent and a 1/2....but that isn't the answer, right?
keep trying
This one I know I am not using stupidity, Research it deep
I don't think there is another answer. I think you are bluffing. If there is an answer other than 12 please send it to me by PM. But no, I'm not going to research what I have now come to believe is a prank.
I believe that I probably put the riddle down wrong, I do not rember it very well maybe it was how much do 13 hairs cost. It was told to me by a close friend That went to MIT and Harvard, and when he told me the riddle he told me the answer was 8 or 9 cnt's. I put it here not as a prank, my stupidity itself is to blame.
Grrr! Still means there was not going to be a answer you were going to accept and that you were perfectly satisfied with letting us keep trying.
If you want to pull the "riddle-with-no-answer" trick don't choose math. ;-)
actually I was hoping that you knew of the riddle, I did not realize I had prob, messed up until today and actually tried to call the friend to get the accurate one. my mind has been a li'l out there recently getting used to this medication. when I get the acurate riddle I will repost it, which I know you will solve.
You are right the answer is 12 cents.
I have seen the kind of riddles before
and there was always a third part, which
is missing here.
If one and a half a hair grows one and a half mm in
one and a half days. How many mm does one hair
grow in 12 days?
Laura
yo mellow...your on the right track...
if 1 and 1/2 hair = 1 and 1/2 cents
then,
(12 hairs) times (1.5 cents) = 8 cents
take that back.
12 is actaully the correct answer.
because 1 = 1 / 1.5 = 1.5
so 1 x 12 = 12
Is the riddle supposed to read...
how many hairs are there if you spend 12 cents if 1 and 1/2 hair strand costs 1 and 1/2 cents?
12 x 1.5 = 8 hairs
Re: take that back.
jiggygeoffk wrote:12 is actaully the correct answer.
because 1 = 1 / 1.5 = 1.5
so 1 x 12 = 12
Is the riddle supposed to read...
how many hairs are there if you spend 12 cents if 1 and 1/2 hair strand costs 1 and 1/2 cents?
12 x 1.5 = 8 hairs
Three points:
1. If 1 1/2 hair costs 1 1/2 cent then 1 hair costs 1 cent. 12 hairs would cost 12 cents.
2. 1/1.5 = 2/3 = .666666... and is not equal to 1 (nor is it equal to 1.5)
3. 12 x 1.5 = 18
1/2 a hair cost a cent and 1/2 so u multiply 1.5 by 24 and get 36. 12 hairs would cost 36 cents
oops i read it wrong i was wrong
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