Tricky Question
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Topic: Tricky Question
Posted By: hockenpj
Subject: Tricky Question
Date Posted: 27 February 2003 at 3:44pm
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A man picks up a portrait and says: "Brothers and sisters have I none, this mans father is my fathers son." How are they related? |
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 27 February 2003 at 3:50pm
| well could you be related to yourself :) |
Posted By: hockenpj
Date Posted: 27 February 2003 at 5:16pm
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No |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 27 February 2003 at 5:36pm
| That was an answer doh, this mans father is my fathers son, so it would be me as "I" don't have brothers. |
Posted By: faubo
Date Posted: 27 February 2003 at 10:05pm
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Well, If I am my fathers son, this means that mans father must be me. So the one in the portrait is my son.
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Posted By: hockenpj
Date Posted: 28 February 2003 at 6:09am
Faubo, got the correct answer
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 28 February 2003 at 6:17pm
| Now how is faubos answer different from mine :) |
Posted By: Bunce
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 5:10am
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umm.... after Michael... ------------- There have been many, many posts made throughout the world... This was one of them. |
hockenpj wrote:Posted By: hockenpj
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 5:37am
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Sorry michael I was not reading properly (It does help!). Once again very sorry |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 5:42am
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faubo got the right answer!! |
Posted By: faubo
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 2:00pm
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My answer is right because he wants to know about the man in the portrait, not yourself. But Michael is the one that solve the real "tricky" thing. Here's another one: you are a prisoner in a foreign land. your fate will be determined by a little game. there are two jars, one with 50 white marbles, and one with 50 black marbles. at this point, you are allowed to redistribute the marbles however you wish (e.g. swap a black marble with a white marble, etc.): the only requirement is that after you are done with the redistribution, every marble must be in one of the two jars. afterwards, both jars will be shaken up, and you will be blindfolded and presented with one of the jars at random. then you pick one marble out of the jar given to you. if the marble you pull out is white, you live; if black, you die. how should you redistribute the marbles to maximize the probability that you live; what is this maximum probability (roughly)? ------------- http://www.conhecerparaconservar.org - I don't know how to make you click here |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 4:45pm
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Probility calculation might leave you to more then one answer but I think the best probabilty can leave you at almost 75%. Put all marbles but one white one in a jar. The one withe one in the other. You have a 50% chance of picking the jar with the one white marble, thus if you get that jar your chance of living is 100%. The other jar on the other hand there is a 49.9% probability of picking a white one. So using my rusty math skills it would equate to |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 5:18pm
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But while we are at it What is the beginning of ETERNITY..the end of TIME and SPACE the beginning of every END and the end of every PLACE?? Name Three consecuative days with out using Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wensday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday! 1.) I |
Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 7:21pm
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 7:49pm
| Very good KC |
Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 8:13pm
The letter E. |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 01 March 2003 at 9:28pm
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Guess I have to find some harder ones
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Posted By: faubo
Date Posted: 02 March 2003 at 4:48pm
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hehehehe, yep
You got the marbles right. ------------- http://www.conhecerparaconservar.org - I don't know how to make you click here |