Riddlish Riddle 7

In my workday I do not get as much accomplished. Do you work 8 hours a day?

nice

by the way, i dont

about 255 minutes?

The question must be clear for a clear answer. An answer must depend on which of the two cases is thought here:

1) If a person passed the rumor the person never talk about it.
2) After a person passed the rumor the person continues to pass it at the given time rate 30 minutes.

no i don't work, don't plan to until some 15 years (yes...i'm a weirdo hehe), thank you just say no. LOL

I come up with approx. 254 mins?

LOL. It's already been answered several times.

The rumor puzzle reminds me of the man who was hiring a man for thirty days.
The new 30 day employee could get $1,000,000 one milllion cash for the thirty days. He was offered the option of a penny for his first day, two cents for his second day, four cents for his third day, eight cents for his fourth day, the amount to be doubled each day.

Thee boss wanted a snap decision. Which way should he have opted for?

sorry
I am new to this forum, so I am sorry to point out that this question is clearly flawed. One would assume that in order for 21 people to know the scandal it would take one hour based on the most simple math. but what you forgot is that there will be a variable dispetion rate. For example; if I told the scandal to 4 people in the first 30 minutes after I originaly heard the scandal, at some point with that first 30 minutes I would have had to have told the first person. Hypotheticaly we'll say 10 minutes. The rate at which they tell the next 4 people would begin only 10 minutes after I do . So I would have 4 seperate variables, based on the time within the first 30 minutes that I told each of the 4 people I told the scandal to . To further complicate things, in order to track the variable dispertion rate correctly, I would have to know at what point within the first thirty minutes of hearing the scandal that each of the 5.6 billion people told each of the four people they told the scandal to. Considering that each peice of data would have to be tracked both continuesly and sequentialy, there would be exactly 22.4 billion different calculations needed in order to correctly answer this question. Unless, of cours, each person told all 4 people at exactly the same time exactly 30 minutes after each person gained knowledge of the scandal. In which case it would be a much easier task.

dude use your imagination. We are going for a math riddle, not a scienticfic one. if you gonna solve riddles you have to think outside the science and all.

The 30 day employee should take the 1 cents, 2 cents, 4 cents deal. He would make 1 mil. dollars for a day and then 2 mil. on the 27th or so day.

If it was a scandal, the person involved in the scandal probably would not pass on the rumor. So the answer depends on the number of people the scandal involved and when they heard the rumor. If we assume that nobody ever tells the people involved in the scandal, we would still have to know how many people were involved so we can deduct it from the 5.6 billion.

If we don't consider that factor, and it takes each person the full 30 minutes to tell 4 people who then begin telling other people at the end of the 30 mintues, it would take 8.5 hours because it has to be rounded up to the next 30 minute mark. In 8 hours only 4.3 billion people are reached. So even if you take the question as intended by the questioner the answer is 8.5 not 8.

agree with red. the amt you make would reach ten million plus by the end of the month

But would you really want to have to carry home that bag of 10 million pennies?

That is a very hard riddle! Well, maybe not, but I'm not the best at math! lol

8 hours everyone in the world would know.

You find out 1 person knows

after 1/2 hour you tell 4 people and now 5 know
ater 1 hour the four people that you told each tell four people and now 21 people know and so forth:

Time (in hours) People Told Total Who Know
1/2............................4........................5
1.............................16.......................21
1 1/2.......................64........................85
2...........................256.......................341
2 1/2...................1024......................1365
3.........................4096......................5461
3 1/2.................16384.....................21845
4.......................65536.....................87381
4 1/2................262144...................349525
5.....................1048576................1398101
5 1/2...............4194304.................5592405
6....................16777216...............22369621
6 1/2...............67108864..............89478485
7...................268435456..............357913941
7 1/2............1073741824..............1431655765
8..................4168344235..............5600000000

You are the first to know a more juicy rumor. You just must get the word out on this. If you tell 62 people in the first 1/2 hour, in the 2nd 1/2 hour if everyone who knows passes the rumor on to 62 people who have not heard the rumor, and in the 3rd half hour the everyone who knows also passes it on to 62 people each, and so on how long will it take for everyone to hear the rumor, consider the population at the same 5.6 billion people.