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fatboy · #1 Post by **fatboy** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:53 pm

3 flatmates go shopping for a new telly, they find one on offer for £30.
They buy it,its a bargain and works out at £10 each.
The shop manager sees the telly has been sold, finds the salesman and says 'That telly was further reduced to £25, find the customer and give them £5 back '
The salesman grabs a fiver from the till,chases after the customers, thinking, 'How can they share a fiver between 3 ? I will give them a quid back each and keep the other 2. That means it only cost them £9 each.

So, if 3 of them spent £9 each, thats £27, so what happened to the other quid ????

Dalemac · #2 Post by **Dalemac** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:48 pm

What missing quid?

There is £30 in the till. You take £5.
You take £2 of the £5 , and give them each £1 (£3).

There is £25 in the till, £2 in your hands and £3 in their hands.

Together they have spent £27 pounds. £2 is in your hands, £25 is in the till, and they each walk away with £1.

Or, look at it the other way.

£25 in the till. Give them each back £1 which totals £28 pounds. You have the other £2 = £30.

fatboy · #3 Post by **fatboy** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:32 pm

Not meant to be taken seriously !
Bit like I got 11 fingers, 10,9,8,7,6 plus 5 is 11

Dalemac · #4 Post by **Dalemac** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:33 pm

fatboy wrote:Not meant to be taken seriously !
Bit like I got 11 fingers, 10,9,8,7,6 plus 5 is 11

I know it was a trick question ;)

Still fun working it out though :D

Aladinsaneuk · #5 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 6:30 am

Bet you would not want to try that finger trick around here....

fatboy · #6 Post by **fatboy** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 2:09 pm

11 fingers is the minimum right ?

BikerGran · #7 Post by **BikerGran** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:31 pm

Yes but no limit to the number of toes.....

MartDude · #8 Post by **MartDude** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:26 pm

Are the intra-digital webs used for fractions?

blinkey501 · #9 Post by **blinkey501** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 4:49 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Bet you would not want to try that finger trick around here....

fatboy · #10 Post by **fatboy** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:44 pm

MartDude wrote:Are the intra-digital webs used for fractions?

Aladinsaneuk · #11 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:12 pm

Just like to point out that a lot of serious mathematical theory has been worked out in Cambridge.... Probably helps if you are not restricted to a decimal system...

D-Rider · #12 Post by **D-Rider** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 10:27 pm

In that part of the world, isn't "web surfing" their annual walking on water competition?

Aladinsaneuk · #13 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 5:50 am

yep

and i was gutted when i went to watch the dyke jumping....

#14 Post by **Kwackerz** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 4:46 pm

I saw what the badger did there...

works on so many levels..