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this is again sadly, human logic based on the assumption that American means United states...  perhaps other counties of the "Americas" have coin denominations that could fulfill this puzzle. :lol:

 

 

*other countries :( like Mexico, guatemala, canada, and anywhere else in the carribean all the way down to argentina.  Natives from many of these countries consider themselves "American" because they live on the continent of North America or South America.  Tourists from the USA can seem concieted to  :D exclusivly call themselves americans in these places.

::smirks, being able to tell you everything about society and government in Latin America you would want to know::

 

Most of the Countries around the world use similar denominations to those in the US, although we did not invent this system--entirely.

 

The currency of Brazil, for example, is the real (R$). The real comes in coin denominations of R$1 and 50, 10, 5, and 1 'cent.'

 

Canada, also uses a similar system to that of the US, although they have an added two-dollar coin, in addition to the Loonie.

 

Mexico, does use a 20 cent denomination and a 5 cent denomonation...making the question possable to solve, (when it is not taken as a play on words.)

 

 

However, one could argue that technically it's not worth 25 cents due to inflation, 25 Centavos is not worth an aggregate 25 cents as was stated in the question.

 

Not to mention that it was worded as 'cents' logically, one can conclude that limits it to the English-speaking sector of the Americas, which would also elminate the Mexican coinage, not to mention any of the other Spanish-Portguesse Countries of Latin America...oh yeah and the ones the French had too...umm Guienna and a couple of the islands. ;)

 

::loves semantics::

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Here's a good one. You have four nines. You must make them equal exactly 100. You may add, subtract, multiply, divide, combine, and use decimals. YOU MAY NOT ROUND ANY NUMBERS!

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81/.9=90

Wouldn't it just be easier to say 81+9=90?

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Here's an old favorite of mine:

 

A man comes to the door of a house and asks the occupants if they would be willing to take a survey. They agree, and he asks them if they have any children, and what the ages of the children are. The couple responds that they have 3 children, but refuse to reveal the ages. The man asks for a hint, and the couple offers him two:

1. The product of their ages is 72.

2. The sum of their ages is the same as the house number.

After some scribbling and counting on his fingers, the man admits that he's still stumped, and asks for another hint.

"Well, the oldest one likes chocolate pudding," says the mother. The man thanks her, fills in the ages of the children, and moves on.

How old are the children?

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6 and 4 and 3.

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The couple is really old, and that's why they like to tease survey-takers. The twins, 1 and 1, were born by the miracles of fertility treatments and their 72 year old son lost all his teeth and only eats chocolate pudding. Their house # is 74.

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There's a fancy French restaurant cafe called Café Pretension. They had started a new promotion. On their anniversary, a married couple purchasing an entrée at full price would get the second entrée free. The promotion turned out to be a huge success.

 

Of course, the restaurant required diners to bring some proof of the date of their anniversary to receive the discount.

 

One Wednesday night a waiter came to Francois, the owner, and said, "Boss, that couple over there is claiming that today is their anniversary, but they don't have any proof."

 

Francois went over and introduced himself and engaged in a little tete-a-tete with them. Francois asked the woman, "Tell me a little bit about your wedding day."

 

She said, "It was a beautiful Sunday morning, the birds were chirping as I opened my window to prepare to get ready for my wedding. I saw the flowers in bloom. It was spectacular." She goes on to explain to Francois that today was their 28th wedding anniversary.

 

Francois says, "How charming! But, unfortunately, you do not qualify. I don't believe that today is your 28th wedding anniversary. In fact," he says, "You're a bold face liar!" And he slaps her across the face, spilling her vichyssoise onto her lap.

 

How did Francois know that today was not their wedding anniversary?

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Easy enough; the day of the week any day falls on moves forward one day each year, except in leap years, when it jumps two. So, twenty-eight years ago... is... a Tuesday? ::grabs paper and pencil:: In any event, not a Sunday. ;-)

 

Oh, and Dumbass -- Wrong. LoAmi... Novel, but wrong. (I can explain why, but not without giving away the solution.)

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Okay, I'll jump in with *my* old favorite.

 

Three guys go to Shoreleave and share a room in a REALLY cheap hotel. The desk clerk charges them $30 so they each pay $10.

 

Then the clerk realizes the room is only $25 (no toilet, maybe?) and gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests.

 

The bellhop decides that it will be a pain to split $5 between three guests, so he pockets $2 himself and gives them each back $1.

 

So, each of the three guests paid $9 and the bellhop kept $2.

 

In other words, 3 * 9 = 27, then add in the 2 held to the side and you have 29.

 

Where is the missing dollar??

 

 

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Easy enough; the day of the week any day falls on moves forward one day each year, except in leap years, when it jumps two. So, twenty-eight years ago... is... a Tuesday? ::grabs paper and pencil:: In any event, not a Sunday. ;-)

 

Oh, and Dumbass -- Wrong. LoAmi... Novel, but wrong. (I can explain why, but not without giving away the solution.)

Close. Except in the event of non-leap-year centuries, a date falls on the exact same day of the week every 28 years. The day was a Wednesday. The woman said that they were married on a Sunday. But twenty-eight years prior should've been a Wednesday, not a Sunday.

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Okay, I'll jump in with *my* old favorite.

 

Three guys go to Shoreleave and share a room in a REALLY cheap hotel. The desk clerk charges them $30 so they each pay $10.

 

Then the clerk realizes the room is only $25 (no toilet, maybe?) and gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests.

 

The bellhop decides that it will be a pain to split $5 between three guests, so he pockets $2 himself and gives them each back $1.

 

So, each of the three guests paid $9 and the bellhop kept $2.

 

In other words, 3 * 9 = 27, then add in the 2 held to the side and you have 29.

 

Where is the missing dollar??

 

 

there's no dollar missing

 

and koolaidman, your wrong

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Okay, I'll jump in with *my* old favorite.

 

Three guys go to Shoreleave and share a room in a REALLY cheap hotel.  The desk clerk charges them $30 so they each pay $10.

 

Then the clerk realizes the room is only $25 (no toilet, maybe?) and gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests.

 

The bellhop decides that it will be a pain to split $5 between three guests, so he pockets $2 himself and gives them each back $1.

 

So, each of the three guests paid $9 and the bellhop kept $2.

 

In other words, 3 * 9 = 27, then add in the 2 held to the side and you have 29.

 

Where is the missing dollar??

 

 

Let's go through the transactions on an individual basis, starting with what the guests *should* have paid.

 

The correct charge for the room per person would have been $8.33.

Each person's share of the embezzlement was $.67

This brings the total cost of the room, including the embezzlement factor, to $9.00 This makes sense since $10.00 (original charge) - $1.00 (change) = $9.00

 

But then A9 goes and adds in the embezzlement *again*, which is not right because it had already been counted once. He is double-counting the embezzlement.

 

By the way, did I mention that I am an accountant?

Edited by Dumbass

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there's no dollar missing

 

and koolaidman, your wrong

how so, my trusty window calculator and my graphing calculator agree with me?

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how so, my trusty window calculator and my graphing calculator agree with me?

I should rephrase that. NO DECIMALS!

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Here's a good one. You have four nines. You must make them equal exactly 100. You may add, subtract, multiply, divide, combine, and use decimals. YOU MAY NOT ROUND ANY NUMBERS!

ok so no decimals cause thats what you had said before

 

9/9=1

 

puta 9 in front=91

 

91+9=100

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9/9=1

 

puta 9 in front=91<<<<<<<<<<is that combining?

 

91+9=100

 

??????

good reasoning, but I mean combining the 9s before dividing anything

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There's a fancy French restaurant cafe called Café Pretension. They had started a new promotion. On their anniversary, a married couple purchasing an entrée at full price would get the second entrée free. The promotion turned out to be a huge success.

 

Of course, the restaurant required diners to bring some proof of the date of their anniversary to receive the discount.

 

One Wednesday night a waiter came to Francois, the owner, and said, "Boss, that couple over there is claiming that today is their anniversary, but they don't have any proof."

 

Francois went over and introduced himself and engaged in a little tete-a-tete with them. Francois asked the woman, "Tell me a little bit about your wedding day."

 

She said, "It was a beautiful Sunday morning, the birds were chirping as I opened my window to prepare to get ready for my wedding. I saw the flowers in bloom. It was spectacular." She goes on to explain to Francois that today was their 28th wedding anniversary.

 

Francois says, "How charming! But, unfortunately, you do not qualify. I don't believe that today is your 28th wedding anniversary. In fact," he says, "You're a bold face liar!" And he slaps her across the face, spilling her vichyssoise onto her lap.

 

How did Francois know that today was not their wedding anniversary?

It's either that flowers don't bloom that time of year, or it has to do with it being a wednesday and their anniversary was claimed to be a sunday.

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A maharajah owned a mango tree that had very sweet, abundant fruit. People would come from miles around to pick the fruit. So the maharajah decided to protect the tree by erecting a series of seven concentric fences around it.

 

Each fence had a gate with a guard. To get to the tree a person would have had to pass through seven gates and pass seven guards.

 

One day, a man approached the guard at the first gate and said, "If you let me pass, when I come back I'll bring you some mangoes. I will give you half of the mangoes I have, but you must give me one back." For example, if he brings back 10 mangoes, he'll give five to the guard and the guard will give one back. The guard let the man in through the gate, and the man proceeded to make the same deal with the other six guards.

 

The question is: How many mangoes did the man have to get to pass back through the seven gates, giving half to each guard and the guard giving one back? Assume no splitting, partials, etc; use whole mangoes.

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2

Yes, 2, and from there just keep adding 128; so 130, 258, 386, 514, etc., also work.

 

Many moons ago, when Tommy's son Alex was learning how to drive, Tommy thought he'd take him out in his '63 Dart and show him the rules of the road.

 

Alex was driving along, doing rather well, when they hear an unfamiliar noise. Tommy realized after a minute or so that the right rear tire had gone flat.

 

Realizing this was yet another fine opportunity to teach, Tommy asked Alex to pull off onto the shoulder. With the semis whizzing by at 70 miles per hour, Tommy hid in the bushes and told Alex from 100 yards away, "Take the jack out of the truck."

 

Alex jacked up the car, loosened the wheel nuts, and very carefully put them in the hub cap. But when he went to retrieve the spare tire, he inadvertently stepped on the hub cap and sent all but one of the wheel nuts cascading down the nearby hillside, never to be seen again. Out of the five wheel nuts, he managed to save one.

 

After administering an appropriate number of dope slaps, Tommy said, "We're done for!"

 

Suddenly, Alex said, "Wait a minute! Can you have four wheel nuts on every wheel instead of five?" Tommy said, "Yes, of course we can -- at least until we get back to town." To which Alex replied, "Well then, let's take one nut off of each of the other wheels, leaving four on each wheel, and we'll have four for the tire we're changing."

 

Three hours later, they're still waiting for help. Why couldn't they do what Alex suggested?

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