Okay my daughter is doing this for extra credit - and it's driving me crazy! But she needs to solve this... So if you can help me with this that would be great... Here it is... There are 12 COINS, There are 3 times as many quarters as dimes, but the dimes are worth 3 times as much as the quarters ... How's that possible!?
There's not even a total that they add up to or anything? Maybe it's just that the dimes are more rare...and so worth more
As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
That's what i told her - that it's not possible.... But she insists that it is.... Unless this little brat is having me up to the wee hours of the mornings for an April Fools joke.
Well, if we're talking about standard, currently circulated American coins, where quarters are worth 25 cents each and dimes are worth 10 cents each, the puzzle is impossible. But, the answer to the riddle is probably this: The quarters are standard American quarters worth 25 cents each, and the dimes are some kind of old, out-of-print, rare collector's coins. The difficulty lies in the vague question - it doesn't specifially indicate what is meant by "dimes" or "quarters" (American currency? Currently circulated currency? Collector's items?) -- droxford
This would be my guess... There are 0 dimes, therefore there are also 0 quarters (0 x 3 = 0). The dimes can be worth 3 times as much as the quarters (or 4 times as much, or five times as much, etc.) because 3 x 0 = 0. So that means the 12 coins are a combination of pennies and nickels...
sLaNd B a L L a got to it first... There's 12 coins but they aren't all quarters and dimes. 3 dimes and 1 quarter is also possible.
Is this what the paper says? Please inspect it. There is a possibility there may be a word missing or a number added... maybe? If that is NOT the case, here is one of my algebraic explanations: w+x+y+z = 12 where w's are pennies, x's are nickles, y's are dimes, z's are quarters According to the riddle, there are {3} times "as many quarters as dimes," so to support sLaNd B a L L a's theory (which is totally valid) you CAN have a 0 number for anything in there. BUT... WHY even have that as a factor in the riddle, if those coins are not even there? Why even mention it? Anyway, HecktiKg81, what's the deal with the "..." at the end of the riddle???
how old is your daughter? Because if she is very young(below 13), the Answer is probably not the one sLaNd B a L L a said. because why ad the fact that the coins can be other coins then mentioned. But if she is older (Above 13). sLaNd B a L L a answer is probably right
