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Re: Accounting program (was problem solving)

• Posted by don cole <doncole at p?c?ell.net> Oct 09, 2007
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> This post seems to be having a bit of a problem getting through so
> here it is again...
> 
> 
> This is a sort of riddle, and riddles are written to confuse the reader
> into thinking that something is true when it really is not true.  There
> are usually a bunch of statements that are true followed by usually
> one statement that pretends to discredit one or more of the previous 
> statements.
> 
> For this particular problem, the students pay 30 dollars total, but
> once they get 3 dollars back from the clerk they immediately have
> no longer paid 30 dollars so the number 30 should get tossed.  After
> they get 3 dollars back they have paid a total of 27 dollars so
> the remaining math has to begin with 27 dollars, not 30 dollars.
> 
> A similar riddle would be since the clerk gave the students back
> 3 dollars and kept 2 *and* they only paid 27 dollars total (after
> getting back the 3 dollars) where did the 2 dollars even come from?
> 
> Other examples:
> 
> Two US mint coins total 30 cents, and one of them is not a nickel.
> What are the two coins?
> (This will be easy if you have watched the show "Scrubs" recently,
> where they used this old riddle on the show).
> 
> One of my old favorites:
> "In this one town the barber shaves everyone who does not shave themself.
> Since the barber does not shave those who shave themself then who 
> shaves the barber?"
> Note that if the barber shaves himself then he does not shave himself
> because he does not shave people who shave themself, but then he
> cant shave himself in the first place.  If he did shave himself then
> he would be one of those people who he does not shave, so the paradox
> begins.
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> E boa sorte com sua programacao Euphoria!
> 
> 
> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> 

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Don Cole