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1- A hobo who does like to smoke cigars but does not have any money, collects cigars stumps. From every six stumps he finds he can make a new cigar. One a particular day he finds 36 stumps. How many cigars can he smoke on that day? ---------- 2- What the number of characters the right answer of this question have [in English] ? ---------- 3- How is the minimum cuts with a knife a particular circular cake can be cut with into eight equal pieces ? ---------- 4- To protect his country a king decided to build a wall made out of stone along the border. The wall had to be 3 meters thick and 5 meters high. The border of the country has a length of 500 kilometers. Assuming that one cubic meter of stone weights about 3000 kg, how much heavier becomes the earth by building this wall? Very easy, I know :-D have fun. -- modified at 10:47 Thursday 10th May, 2007 -- modified at 10:52 Thursday 10th May, 2007
1- 7, as the first cigs will make another 6 stumps to make another. 2- Four, is the only number that it's characters equals it's value. 3- 3 ,as Nish first got it. 4- As the rocks will surly come from earth, nothing will change.
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dan neely wrote:
The bottom of a cake is flat, the top bulges in the center (unless it falls but in that case it's ruined).
I don't think he's specified that. I am assuming it's a flat surfaced cake.
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LongHC wrote:
1- A hobo who does like to smoke cigars but does not have any money, collects cigars stumps. From every six stumps he finds he can make a new cigar. One a particular day he finds 36 stumps. How many cigars can he smoke on that day?
6 cigars. 0 - if you missed a "not" as in "who does not like to smoke"
LongHC wrote:
2- What the number of characters the right answer of this question have ?
Assuming it's "right", then 5.
LongHC wrote:
3- How is the minimum cuts with a knife a particular circular cake can be cut with into eight equal pieces ?
3. First cut into two halves, then cut into 4 quarters, then cut side-wise into 8 pieces.
LongHC wrote:
4- To protect his country a king decided to build a wall made out of stone along the border. The wall had to be 3 meters thick and 5 meters high. The border of the country has a length of 500 kilometers. Assuming that one cubic meter of stone weights about 3000 kg, how much heavier becomes the earth by building this wall?
Will do this later if no one else has yet :-)
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3. First cut into two halves, then cut into 4 quarters, then cut side-wise into 8 pieces.
Huh, and then the first four people get most of the icing. :suss: ;P
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If not, you could always line them up after the second cut:
---- <}<}<}<} --- cut along this line
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If not, you could always line them up after the second cut:
---- <}<}<}<} --- cut along this line
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistOK, that right, there are exactly 3 solutions to this, I said the minimum, and the minimum is three.:)
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1- 7, as the first cigs will make another 6 stumps to make another. 2- Four, is the only number that it's characters equals it's value. 3- 3 ,as Nish first got it. 4- As the rocks will surly come from earth, nothing will change.
LongHC wrote:
2- Four, is the only number that it's characters equals it's value.
How in the world did you get that from: 2- What the number of characters the right answer of this question have [in English] ?
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LongHC wrote:
2- Four, is the only number that it's characters equals it's value.
How in the world did you get that from: 2- What the number of characters the right answer of this question have [in English] ?
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
With the answer I can translate the question into normal english. "How many characters does the answer of this question have?". The original appears to be the victim of poor translation by a nonnative speaker.
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1- 7, as the first cigs will make another 6 stumps to make another. 2- Four, is the only number that it's characters equals it's value. 3- 3 ,as Nish first got it. 4- As the rocks will surly come from earth, nothing will change.
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LongHC wrote:
1- 7, as the first cigs will make another 6 stumps to make another.
Wouldn't this be 6 because he doesn't smoke and therefore doesn't have the stumps from the first six.
reread the question. He likes to smoke cigars, what he doesn't have is money to buy them.
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Rage wrote:
1 - about seven, each first six leaving stumps
Damn! I missed that one.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
First cut into two halves, then cut into 4 quarters, then cut side-wise into 8 pieces
Your last move leaves me perplex... or are they two moves ?
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