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You are correct on both, Weavus.......... good job!
Swallowing your pride AND Making Matters Worse.
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Svslav............ Amherst is correct........ very good!
You sure are one smart cookie!
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#5 => eye pod (i-pod)  ...... yesssssss! |
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You got it! Great job, Steve!
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Wow am I behind! I posted a pic of Abraham Lincoln on page 17:  ... and weavus135 was close with Quote:
seriously, abe played with dolls? Gettysburg Address The whole answer is Lincoln "Giving the Getty's bird a dress." How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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OK folks - here it is again:
Sir, I send a rhyme excelling
in sacred truth and rigid spelling
numerical sprites elucidate
to me the lexicon's dull weight
I already gave the hint of:
Think Greek Dessert, but not necessarily a Greek dessert (think Greek and dessert)
How about the hint ... number?
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OK - let's tackle this one:
L. A coin was sold for $10 plus half of its price. What was the price of the coin?
Two scenarios.
Number 1 = impossible to tell:
10.00 + 1/2 coin price = Price sold for
so...... 1/2coin price = Price sold for - 10.00
Multiply both sides by 2 to isolate the coins price (c):
coin price = 2 (Price sold for -10.00)
Here is a legitimate algebraic answer, however, since the situation represents a situation where the number of variable is more than the number of equations, it is impossible to solve and get a single numeric answer. In other words, any coin price would give a different price sold for.
Number 2: - possible, but an assumption based on poor wording. It must be assumed the wording "a coin was sold for" refers to amount as the words, "half of its price"
in which case:
Price sold for = 10.00 + 1/2 Price sold for
or
P = 10 + 1/2 P
Isolate P by subtracting 1/2 P from both sides:
1/2P = 10.00
Multiply both sides by 2 to solve for P
P = 20.00
IF this is the case of the wording (not sure what else it would be) then the price was 20.00.
Sorry I wrote it all out - but I was figuring through it on the way instead of using paper!
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The assumption was simple here - the coin was sold for its price!
Which means $10 represents (the other) half of it. So the whole price is $10 x 2 =$20.
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good job Earle => svslav, the ol' wiley math teacher is trying to job you outta your full marks, but I'm backin' ya and voting that you get full-marks for getting the correct answer => $20 ... QED  |
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If the red house is on the right side and if the blue house is on the left side where's the white house? on the far left side on the wrong side Edited by biggfredd
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A. Cajun, Steve and Moe are sitting around a bonfire and arguing who of them is the smartest. Jbuck happened to pass by and heard the conversation. He said, in my bag I have white and black hats, I'm going to put one on each of you so that you can see only your opponents' hats. I promise that at least one hat will be white. Whoever first figures out what color hat (s)he wears would be the smartest.
He put white hats on all three and left.
After staring at each others' heads for a minute Cajunlady exclaimed, my hat is white! How did she figure it out? C saw two white hats, S saw two white hats, M saw two white hats. C figured that if she had a black hat, S and M would see one of each and realize their hat had to be white. Since they didn't, her hat had to be white. Quote:
(A variation of above) A troop of soldiers came to the river, and two little boys were fishing on a dingy. The vessel is so small that it can carry only two boys or only one adult.
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Three tortoises are crawling through the desert in the same direction. The first tortoise says, behind me there are two tortoises. The second says, There's a tortoise in front of me, and there's a tortoise behind me. The third one says, in front of me there are two tortoises, and behind me there's a tortoise.
How can this happen? It can't tortoises can't talk. (Removed answers already made). Edited by biggfredd
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The tortoise lied? Who ever heard of a lying tortoise. grrrrrrrrrrr Who ever heard of a talking tortoise? |
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