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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: Rick on September 10, 2007, 05:56:37 AM
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I am just going to add some puzzles/problems each week and see if you people, in the world of Dp actually are really smart.
1. There are seven houses each containing 7 cats. Each cat kills 7 mice and each mouse would have eaten 7 ears of spelt.
Each ear of spelt would have produced 7 hekats of grain. What is the total of all of these?
2. Seven old women are travelling to Rome, and each has seven mules. On each mule there are seven sacks, in each sack there are seven loafs of bread, in each loaf of bread there are seven knifes, and each knife has seven sheaths. The question is to find the total of all of them. Solved by nightryder with the answer of 137,256
3. The St Ives Riddle
As i was going to St Ives,
I met a man with seven wifes.
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits;
Kits, cats, sacks and wifes,
How many were going to St Ives? Solved by Herron. With the answer of 1.
4. The greedy algorithm does not work so well if we add the condition that all the denominators must be odd. There are just five ways to represent 1 as the sum of the smallest possible number of Egyptian fractions, with odd denominators. Which has the smallest largest denominator?
5. What is the smallest fraction 3/n for which the greedy algorithm produces a sum in three terms, but two terms are actually the same? Seems theres something missing sorry.
6. How can 1/2 be represented as the sum of unit fractions with square denominators, with no denominator greater than 35 squared?
7. Problem 29 of the rhind papyrus is not so clear, but it is plausibly the first ever 'Think of a number' problem. It reads, 'Two-thirds is to be added. One third is to be subtracted. There remains 10'. In clearer language that reads: 'I think of a number, and add to it two-thirds of the number. I then subtract one-third of the sum. My answer is 10.' What number did i think of?
8. 'If the scribe says to thee, '10 has become 2/3 + 1/10 of what?' is the Egyptian way of saying, in effect, ' I think of a number. Two thirds of the number plus its tenth make 10.' What was that number?
If any of these don't make sense to you, then don't go asking me. I am dumb and explaining these would just confuse me and you.
Also i got these out of a book.
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Was that book your homework?
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3. 2402?
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1 & 2. All of what exactly?
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3. one -- "As i was going to St Ives" (unless the man was going also, then it would be 2)
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1. 49...i think, i think the trick is it WOULD eaten the spelt, but it didnt so that was the trick...am i right?
2. how are 7 old women controlling 7 mules each
3. herron beat me to number 3, but i like that one
4.1/1 ??? no clue on this one
5. i dont know what the greedy algorithm is, that might be why i think something is missing from the question
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Was that book your homework? No
3. 2402? no
1 & 2. All of what exactly? The cats, houses and all of those things.
3. one -- "As i was going to St Ives" (unless the man was going also, then it would be 2) Correct
1. 49...i think, i think the trick is it WOULD eaten the spelt, but it didnt so that was the trick...am i right? Incorrect, there arent really any tricks.
2. how are 7 old women controlling 7 mules each? Im not sure but they are.
3. herron beat me to number 3, but i like that one. Yes herron was correct
4.1/1 no clue on this one. Incorrect
5. i dont know what the greedy algorithm is, that might be why i think something is missing from the question. Im not sure about that question either, so im going to cross that out.
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1. 2800
2. 7 women
49 mules
343 sacks
2401 breads
16807 knives
117649 sheaths
137256 things
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1. 2800
2. 7 women
49 mules
343 sacks
2401 breads
16807 knives
117649 sheaths
137256 things
1. Incorrect
2. Correct
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1. 16,807? Or 343
Its either, depending on how you interpret the question.
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kk i ahve a puzzle, or just some funny questions
-you go into a room with a box of amtches, theres a fire palce an oil lantern and a candle, you need light, which do you light first?
-how do you put and giraffe in a fridge?
-how do you put an elephant in a fridge?
-at the birth of an animal(like ni the loin king) all the animals join to see the new baby(held up by a baboon on a rock for some reason), anyway, which animal is not there?
-you ahve to cross a crocadile infested river, how do u get across w/out a bridge or boat?
-how do you kill a purple elephant?
- wats half of two plus two?2 or 3?
-wat does a plane bring with it.....take it when it leaves and cant fly without it?
-why did the rooster cross the road?
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wiz,
the matches
plane needs gas
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-how do you put and giraffe in a fridge?
-how do you put an elephant in a fridge?
Open the door, put them in, close the door.
-at the birth of an animal(like ni the loin king) all the animals join to see the new baby(held up by a baboon on a rock for some reason), anyway, which animal is not there?
The giraffe and the elephant, b/c they're still in the fridge.
Saw this set on Chinese TV. :D
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you swim across because all the animals are at the thing by the rock
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good call night
-how do you kill a purple elephant?
Use a purple-elephant gun.
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the rooster crossed the road to go intercourse the chicken
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1/2(2+2)=2
(1/2)(2)+2=3
So...both.
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For Rick's #8:
2/3+1/10=23/30
(10)/(23/30)=10x(30/23)=300/23=~13.04
It's simple algebra, what grade are you in? Also, pretty sure that's not the answer, but I'll give it a try.
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you swim across because all the animals are at the thing by the rock
good job on the matches but the answer to the plane one, although gas is tru, it was noise
o and last question not answered yet is???
(wats half of 2 plus 2?)
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Open the door, put them in, close the door.The giraffe and the elephant, b/c they're still in the fridge.
Saw this set on Chinese TV. :D
really really really close but u have to rea them in order
you open the door and put the elephant in..
to put the giraffe in you open the door take the elephant out then put the giraffe in, then the giraffee is the only one not at the lion king thingymabobolessnessicitylariumtional
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I own a huge fridge ;D :P
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1. There are seven houses each containing 7 cats. Each cat kills 7 mice and each mouse would have eaten 7 ears of spelt.
Each ear of spelt would have produced 7 hekats of grain. What is the total of all of these?
7houses 49cats 343mice 2401 ears of spelt 16807 hekats so 19607 correct or no?