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Fun Mathy Type Riddles
#61
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
Whatevs, just to remind you of the wording:
(October 16, 2017 at 3:08 pm)Whateverist Wrote: 2• These toothpicks have been arranged to form four (small) squares.  Remove just two toothpicks so that only two squares are formed.  (Sorry about the lousy graphics.)

"only two squares are formed"
Nothing else? No extraneous features?
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#62
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
Searched the 3 problem on the internet , if you take in consideration that you have unlimited water it is easy.
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#63
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 17, 2017 at 4:04 am)pocaracas Wrote: Whatevs, just to remind you of the wording:
(October 16, 2017 at 3:08 pm)Whateverist Wrote: 2• These toothpicks have been arranged to form four (small) squares.  Remove just two toothpicks so that only two squares are formed.  (Sorry about the lousy graphics.)

"only two squares are formed"
Nothing else? No extraneous features?


You know I thought about that too.  Does the "only" only bear on the number of squares or on what may be formed?  I think either is a pretty reasonable reading myself.  I paraphrased the original problem so I take responsibility for any ambiguity I let in.
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#64
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
How about we go for a classic mathy type riddle?

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 3, and the host, who knows what is behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 1, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?"

Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
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#65
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 17, 2017 at 10:33 am)pocaracas Wrote: How about we go for a classic mathy type riddle?

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 3, and the host, who knows what is behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 1, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?"

Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?


“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”

Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
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#66
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 17, 2017 at 11:08 am)mlmooney89 Wrote:
(October 17, 2017 at 10:33 am)pocaracas Wrote: How about we go for a classic mathy type riddle?

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 3, and the host, who knows what is behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 1, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?"

Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?



Intuition doesn't work so well, sometimes, does it?
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#67
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 17, 2017 at 11:15 am)pocaracas Wrote:
(October 17, 2017 at 11:08 am)mlmooney89 Wrote:


Intuition doesn't work so well, sometimes, does it?

I don't know what that means! lol

I swear I have a love hate relationship with this stuff. It drives me crazy and I never get the answer but I love the process. I've tried so just tell me :p
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”

Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
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#68
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
I know there's an advantage to switching because there's a thread about this, but I'll never understand why.
(August 21, 2017 at 11:31 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "I'm not a troll"
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Hammy Wrote:and we also have a sheep on our bed underneath as well
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#69
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
If Angus leaves Aberdeen on a train traveling 50 kph and Sean leaves Glasgow and hour later on a bus traveling 70 kph, at what point will Boru give up on math puzzles?

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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#70
RE: Fun Mathy Type Riddles
(October 17, 2017 at 11:25 am)mlmooney89 Wrote:
(October 17, 2017 at 11:15 am)pocaracas Wrote: Intuition doesn't work so well, sometimes, does it?

I don't know what that means! lol

I swear I have a love hate relationship with this stuff. It drives me crazy and I never get the answer but I love the process. I've tried so just tell me :p

(October 17, 2017 at 11:43 am)Losty Wrote: I know there's an advantage to switching because there's a thread about this, but I'll never understand why.



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