Have a think on this...

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:14 am

schakal wrote:

its not so feckin complicated now is it Question

he gave he took 20quid from the restaurant and gave it back for nothing and if the cost of the shoes dont count ,than he lost 20 quid unless you are gonna be bending words after all

So what about the change he gave to the guy with the shoes?

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right he sold a pair of shoes Â£12, he gave the customer Â£8 change (thats a value of Â£20

he had to give the restaurant guy Â£20 quid back as it was dodgy.

Â£20 + Â£20 = Â£40

ahh shite, excluding the shoes means Â£28 which is what I got originally but then added the shoes value Rolling Eyes

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:18 am

Neal where the hell are you, come on sort us bunch of fickos out will you! Coz I get the feeling all our answers are

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i see it as, imagine you have nothing but a pair of shoes, someone gives u Â£20, you go change it, so u have 20 pound coins in your hand. you give the man 8 change, so u have 12 in ur hand.

then u have to give the resturant man 20, so u already have 12 in ur hand to give him, and now need to find another 8 to make it 20, so u have a defecit of Â£8.

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:34 am

wot (I mean what really) JB said

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What Chris H sais makes the most sense! but then again, so does JB's idea Confused

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Shop had 2 x 10's = 20
Got 20 from shoe bloke - 20 + 20 = 40
Gave shoe bloke 8 back - 40 - 8 = 32
Gave next door bloke 20 back - 32 - 20 = 12

Started with the 2 x 10's - 20 - 12 = 8

I'm goin with 8

I forget how i got 16

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i recon he is 12 pound up, cus he still has the dodgy note and will pass it on to the next sucker!

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i reckon u made a breakthrough ,keep it up Laughing

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Sorry to leave you hanging guys... been on a course today.

The correct answer is 8 pounds

Its an interesting question though. Its funny how you get hung up on the details of what is essentially a very simple situation.

If you just take out the restaurant from the situation altogether (after all, he ends up how he started out and plays no real part at all), it becomes clear how simple it really is.

Here's another one:

3 guys go to hotel. They ask for a 3 bed room and the manager tells them it is Â£30. They pay and go off to their room.

Now, the manager realises he has made a mistake and the room should only have been Â£25. So, he tell his assistant to go and give then guys back the extra Â£5 that they have been overcharged.

However, the assistant is a bit dishonest and thinks "well im going to have trouble splitting this fiver between 3 guys, and they look like theyre not going to tip me anyway" So what he does is, he gives each guy back Â£1 and pockets the remaining Â£2.

Heres the question:

If the 3 guys paid Â£30, they each paid Â£10

The assistant refunded them each Â£1, meaning they had all in effect paid Â£9 each.

3x Â£9 = Â£27

plus the Â£2 the assistant kept = Â£29

Where did the extra pound go?

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the guys are gay by the looks and they dont deserve a feckin refund what so ever .
however ,

they paid Â£25/3 + Â£1 each after the assistant refunded them the money

which works out as follows

25/3 + 3/3 = 28/3 pounds (each gay guy paid )

28/3 times 3 = 28pounds + 2pounds = 30 pounds

there is your Â£1 ,you owe me a pint Laughing

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on a different approach

its a guy and a girl this time ,they go to the same hotel pay 20quid for a double room ,the guy realises the room was 15 quid and sends the same cheeky fecker assistant to refund them the money .
this bastard decides to go greedier this time and keeps 3quid for himself and gives our innocent couple 2 quid back (1 each)

now they paid Â£10 each for the room ,they have been refunded a quid each which means they paid 9quid each in the end

so Â£9+Â£9 + Â£3 (the assistant kept) = Â£21

there you go ,there is your 1 pound Laughing

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Exactly. Well done. Very Happy

But you see the point of these. Its easy to fall into a single (mistaken) way of looking at a situation, and then not be able to see any other, even when its staring you in the face.

As an aside Schaks, i notice you are always very quick in threads to come up with the gay jokes/quips/insults/insinuations. Any reason for that, or is it just overstated homophobia?

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Neal 19 16v wrote:

As an aside Schaks, i notice you are always very quick in threads to come up with the gay jokes/quips/insults/insinuations. Any reason for that, or is it just overstated homophobia?

good point there neil Smile

nothing against gay people

but if you think about it a while i am sure you will figure out that gayness is a good material to joke about .

but than again why does this bother you so much ? are you gay ? Laughing

see what i mean Question

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yeah i always loved a good gay joke...when i was in school.

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OK

You go to the boot fair and spot a nice set of 4 collectable first edition books. Nice leather hardback bound books. Theyre going for a few quid and you know that they will be an amazing investment, so you buy them.

You obviously want to keep them nice and clean so you carefully put them on the bookshelf in order together, as you do, nice book ends holding them up, the works.

But wouldnt you know it... some fucking bookworm comes along and decides he is going to have a bit of a munch. He eats from the first page of volume 1, all the way through to the last page of volume 4.

Given that the covers of the books are each 1/6" thick, and the pages of each book are 1" thick, how far does the bookworm eat in total on his way through?

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5 and 1/3"

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5 times 1/6" + 4

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here is the clue

"from the first page of volume 1, all the way through to the last page of volume 4"

Laughing

am i feckin good or what Cool