The Seeker Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Don't make me explain it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 it's easy if you take an example, just think there are 100 families, everyone gets one child, so that we have 50 males and 50 females, after that only the parents of girls have another child: 25m and 25f, againg 50%, and the same way is the next step, and the one after that etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 I thought something like For every family that has one girl and keeps having children (once), you've got one family that only has one child, so it's even... it made sense in my head. Your example is nicer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Ry 71 Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 I got that one from a list with -supposedly- questions from a Google Job Interview! here's the complete list: 1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? A lot. 2. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? Nothing; you're so small the blades miss you. 3. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle? Whatever you damn well please. 4. How would you find out if a machine’s stack grows up or down in memory? 5. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew. 6. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap? 24. 7. You have to get from point A to point B. You don’t know if you can get there. What would you do? Check a map. 8. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It’s very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval? WHA?!? THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY BLOODY SENSE!! 9. Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens? Karl Marx converts them to Communism. 10. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if they have a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop. what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country? 11. If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)? 12. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!) 13. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it’s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes? Throw the slowpoke into the canyon 'cause he ate all the food. 14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager? Uh, no? Duh. 15. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world? See #1. 16. You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings? 17. You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 A police officer saw a truck driver clearly going the wrong way down a one-way street, but did not try to stop him. Why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Okay, I'll start a thread for new riddles, but leave the old one up for you sentimental fools. Thanks!!! Oh, Radhi, it wasn't perhaps the fact he may have been walking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Where are the 'um's and 'ah's?! Indeed he was next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 I knew that one! Just wanted to brag a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 A police officer saw a truck driver clearly going the wrong way down a one-way street, but did not try to stop him. Why not? He was walking? I think I've heard that one before. Which letter does the ? at the end replace M-M-L-J-A-R-C-C-G-E-P-C-? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 I think you replied to that one before... my post up there saying it's the right answer is in response to a post by you that I cannot find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Which letter does the ? at the end replace M-M-L-J-A-R-C-C-G-E-P-C-? That would either be T for Thessalonians (Books of the New Testament)... ...or R for Rufus, the Thirteenth Apostle. And yes, I did figure that one out on my own. I had to look up the next book in succession, but I figured it out by the first four letters (Matthew, Mark, Luke John). I'll be back with a new one....but gimme some time, yeah? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 I don't even know the correct answer, but I agree that you're right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Okay, here's a puzzler... You are alone in a room with three (3) switches. In the next room, there are three lamps each with one bulb in it. All the bulbs are turned off at the moment. Each switch belongs to one (and only one) bulb. It is impossible to see into the next room, and you can have no help from anyone. How can you figure out which switch belongs to which bulb, if you may enter the room with the lamps only once? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Turn on all the switches. Then before entering the room turn off switch A. Go in and see whick bulbs are lit. Then you'll know which bulb switch A controls. Then take your chances guessing on the other two because it's 50/50. Yeah, I know...close but no cigar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 that can actually almost work... turn on two switches, wait a couple of minutes, turn one off again, and go to the room, now you have 1 lit, 1 turned off and one turned off but still warm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 (edited) JOE: Close (quite close), but no cigar. There is a way to do it without having to guess. Try again. Actually, Farin has a good way of doing it, that I believe would be credible. It was not the official answer as I originally heard it, but I guess there's more than one way. The correct answer would be to turn on one bulb, walk into the room, take one of the other two bulbs out of the lamp, go back into the switch room and shut off your lit lamp, then flick one of the other switches. If it lights you know which one it is; if it doesn't light, you also know. Does that make sense, or I am smoking crack? FARIN, YOU'RE UP. Edited March 12, 2009 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 I have to search first before I can post something... if anyone has a riddle ready, feel free to take the turn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 The correct answer would be to turn on one bulb, walk into the room, take one of the other two bulbs out of the lamp, go back into the switch room and shut off your lit lamp, then flick one of the other switches. If it lights you know which one it is; if it doesn't light, you also know. Wait just a doggone minute here. How will I know if it lights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Hmmmm....that's a good question. Leave the door open, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 The riddle says you can't see into the room though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 It does say that you can go into the room ONCE. Leave the door open when you come back out. Whatever.....Farin's answer was better, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 okay, found a new one Good at math? Try this one.... 1=3 2=3 3=5 4=4 5=4 6=3 7=5 8=5 9=4 10=3 So: 11=? 12=? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 I have a probable solution, but I'm going to leave it for the next person to solve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 *waiting for next person* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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