I think we figured all of them out... which ones do you want? ------------------ "It doesn't matter. If it's the Lakers or the Spurs, I'm going to kill them." -- Cuttino "Jack" Mobley on possible playoff opponents.
Yep, they have all been figured out except number 10, although I am positive DoD knows what the answer is although it hasnt been specifically mentioned. What about these. 1) Where does New York border on North Carolina? 2) A child playing on the beach had 6-1/6 sand piles in one place and 3-1/3 in another. If he put them together, how many sand piles would he have? 3) Nancy is a very attractive clerk in a candy store. She is 19 years old, is a Freshman at an Ivy League University, wears fashionable clothes, and is a highly competent mathematician. She has done a least squares analysis on her weight during the last two years and has found that the best fitting polynomial is a cubic equation. What does she weigh? 4) Start with three coins: a penny, a nickel and a quarter. Say, "Tommy's mother has three children. The first child's name is Penny." (Hold up the penny while saying this.) "The second child's name is Nick." (Hold up the nickel.) What is the third child's name? (Hold up the quarter.) 5) Do you say "Loo-iss-vill" is the capital of Kentucky, or do you say "Loo-ee-vill" is the capital of Kentucky? 6) What is the difference between Illegal and Unlawful? 7) In a large western city, 80% of the phone numbers are listed, 20% of the phone numbers are businesses, and 20% of the phone numbers start with the numeral "2". If you were to take a random sample of 1000 phone numbers from the city's phone book, how many numbers would you expect to be unlisted, non-business phone numbers that start with a numeral other than "2"? 8) How many bricks does it take to complete a building made entirely of bricks? ------------------
I don't see an answer to #10 of the 2nd set. 10. Imagine the duck OUT of the bottle. ------------------
If thats the name of the Mother, then I would think the question was written incorrectly to misguide you, not so much a riddle. I would disagree about the Monty Hall Dillima. He is playing mind games, so you really would not know. Your odds are 50/50 behind the door, but what are your odds of him playing a mind game? ------------------ Nice guys finish last ... and im surely not going to finish last!
I think switching would always be better. Well, I should say my co-worker convinced me that it is better. Hehe. You have 3 doors. You have a 1/3 chance of getting the door with the prize. You have a 2/3 chance not getting it right. But of the 2 doors left, the guy is always going to open the one with the last goat. This will leave 1 door left and it HAS to have the prize. Your chances at that point are 100% you'll get it right, but it is 100% of the original 2/3 chance. So what ends up happening is that if you don't switch you have a 1/3 chance of getting it right. If you do switch you have a 2/3 chance of getting it right. The other possible solution is that you are playing 2 mutually exclusive games. if you miss you have a 1-in-2 shot chance with the remaining 2 doors so it wouldn't matter which you picked. Switching wouldn't make a difference in this sense since it's a 50-50 proposition. I have to give most of this legwork credit to my co-worker... freakin' genius. I agree with the first scenario... SWITCH! ------------------ "It doesn't matter. If it's the Lakers or the Spurs, I'm going to kill them." -- Cuttino "Jack" Mobley on possible playoff opponents.
Do not spend any time on Monty Hall problem. Trust Cecil. People have been bickering about this for years. ...Which brings me to the subtlety I mentioned earlier. Your analysis of the game show question is correct, Bobo, only if we make several assumptions: (1) Monty Hall knows which door conceals the prize; (2) he only opens doors that do NOT conceal the prize; and (3) he always opens a door. Assumptions #1 and #2 are reasonable. #3 is not. Monty Hall is not stupid. He knows, empirically at least, that if he always opens one of the doors without a prize behind it, the odds greatly favor contestants who switch to the remaining door. He also knows the contestants (or at least the highly vocal studio audience) will tumble to this eventually. To make the game more interesting, therefore, a reasonable strategy for him would be to open a door only when the contestant has guessed right in the first place. In that case the contestant would be a fool to change his pick. But that's absurd, you say. If Monty only opened a door when you'd chosen correctly in the first place, no one would ever switch. Exactly--so it's likely Monty adds one last twist. Most of the time he only opens a door when you've chosen correctly--but not always. In other words, he tries to bluff the contestants, then counterbluff them. This strategy changes the odds dramatically. In fact, it can be shown that if Monty always opens a door when the contestant is right and half the time when he's wrong--a perfectly rational approach--over the long haul the odds of the prize being behind Door #1 versus Door #2 are 50-50. ... [This message has been edited by jamcracker (edited March 20, 2001).]
1. In an alphabetical listing of states. ------------------ "We messed with the Bull, and we got the horns." -- Larry Brown "quote" from AirBullard.com
I guess I can agree with Achebe's answers on these. I'll add some : 1) If you sorted the US state names alphabetically. 3) Is this like the butcher question? uh... she weighs candy. Hell, I don't know. lol. 6) I have no clue. It can't be as easy as just answering with definitions. ------------------ "It doesn't matter. If it's the Lakers or the Spurs, I'm going to kill them." -- Cuttino "Jack" Mobley on possible playoff opponents.
Since number 6 is dumb ill just give the answer unlawful means contrary to the law Illegal is a large sick bird. ------------------
Oh God, you just need to be shot. ------------------ "It doesn't matter. If it's the Lakers or the Spurs, I'm going to kill them." -- Cuttino "Jack" Mobley on possible playoff opponents.
I started reading these off to my fellow programmers at the office, and my co-workers provided some of their own. So, I can't take credit for this one, but I like it: You drive to your Grandma's house at 30 miles/hour. How fast must you drive back to average 60 miles/hour for the whole trip? No trick wording. Just counting travel time, nothing to do with how long you stayed and talked to grandma, just straight math.
It is impossible. You would need to get back instantaneously. ------------------ "We messed with the Bull, and we got the horns." -- Larry Brown "quote" from AirBullard.com
Jer (oopsie, I meant JayZ)- you need to do your homework and stop confusing me. what website did you get these off of because I know you didn't just come up with these all on your own. ------------------ Poopy! [This message has been edited by Ali Cat (edited March 20, 2001).]
Right, Hydra. You shoulda seen the Physics, EE, Math, CS majors in my department try to solve this symbolically. They kept coming up with 0 or 1/0, figured they must have made a mistake, and then re-figured it. Nice break in an otherwise boring day doing crappy work for the stupid frogs. (re-implementing our payment processing code because our French subsidiary chose a stupid credit card processing vendor)
I have one. There is only one word (I think) that has each vowel in alphabetical order in it. What is the word? ------------------ Poopy!
Some more because I don't wanna write any papers. 1. What happened in the middle of the 20th Century that will not happen again for 4,000 years? 2. What has a foot on each side and one in the middle? 3. What kind of nut has no shell? 4. What three things go up and down, but never move? 5. A horse is tied to a 20 foot long rope. The horse wants to get some water that is 30 feet away. The horse gets the water easily. How is this? 6. Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible? 7. While on Safari in Africa, Jennifer woke one morning and felt something in the pocket of her pajamas. It had a head and a tail, but no legs. When Jennifer got up she could feel it move inside of her pocket. However, she showed little concern and went about her morning activities. Why wasn't she concerned? 8. If you have it, you want to share it, but if you share it, you don't have it. What is it? 9. What runs but cannot walk? 10. What kind of coat can be put on only when wet? ------------------ Poopy!
Alphabeticalicious. mmm tastes like letters. ------------------ "We messed with the Bull, and we got the horns." -- Larry Brown "quote" from AirBullard.com [This message has been edited by Hydra (edited March 20, 2001).]
