Q & A : Timepass


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ani70   
Member since: Oct 03
Posts: 765
Location: Canada

Post ID: #PID Posted on: 29-12-04 20:08:31

Question
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> There is a common English word that is nine letters
> long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it
> still remains an English word - from nine letters
> right down to a single letter. What is the original
> word, and what are the words that it becomes after
> removing one letter at a time?
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> The base word is Startling - starting - staring -
> string - sting - sing - sin - in - I
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> You have 10 trees and you have to plant them in five
> rows but each row must contain 4 trees. How is this
> possible?
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> Plant them in shape of a star:
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> Three friends check into a motel for the night and
> the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in
> advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to
> their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes
> he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5.
> He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends
> who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an
> opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three
> friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly
> among them; so he decides to tell them that the
> clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar
> back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover
> $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three
> friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9
> for the room which is a total of $27 for the night.
> We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to
> the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally
> spent. Where did the other dollar go????
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> The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an
> initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5
> must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to
> the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you
> have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the
> addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times
> to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully
> for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9,
> not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned,
> they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the
> clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25
> and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by
> the bellhop, you come up with $30.
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> Peter is the father of John. John is the son of
> Peter. Therefore, John is the ____ of Peters son...
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> name...
:cheers:


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ani


Manasvi   
Member since: Sep 03
Posts: 733
Location: Bahrain

Post ID: #PID Posted on: 30-12-04 03:24:35

good 1 s Shake sm gray cells guys !!
:)

Manasvi .





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