Mental Nuts-- Can You Crack 'em? - Page 6

glatt · 12-21-2011, 10:03 AM

Wait, you're keeping score?

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(not really)

footfootfoot · 12-21-2011, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

Wait, you're keeping score?

[/perks up]

(not really)

get busy!

BigV · 12-21-2011, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

Wait, you're keeping score?

[/perks up]

(not really)

Shirley, you jest.

HungLikeJesus · 12-20-2011, 06:58 PM

I assume it means he started with 8.75c and the first store owner gives him 8.75c. He then spends 10c, leaving him with 7.5c, and so on.

Edit: Woops! BigV beat me.

BigV · 12-20-2011, 07:01 PM

Beat you? Bah. You are my colleague--footfootfoot is the designated beater in this thread.

I see you also corrected the 2 with a 7.

ZenGum · 12-20-2011, 08:54 PM

Well the maths works, but how does he have 8.75 cents?

BigV · 12-20-2011, 09:02 PM

????

three cent nickels, quarter eagles, all these nuts are cracked. Where is your suspension of disbelief???

ZenGum · 12-20-2011, 09:27 PM

I'm starting to suspect the person who wrote this book was both mental AND nuts.

BigV · 12-20-2011, 09:42 PM

might not have happened in US currency. I found a link to a quarter-cent minted in ... Fiji? somewhere...Malaysia Straits.

footfootfoot · 12-21-2011, 10:16 AM

Today's nut:

glatt · 12-21-2011, 10:26 AM

Farm A is worth $4,800 and farm B is worth $1,200.

footfootfoot · 12-21-2011, 10:37 AM

Mental Nuts:
Rhianne = 1
HLJ = 2
Zen = 1
BigV =1
Glatt = 1

glatt · 12-21-2011, 10:58 AM

It was easy. I was doubting myself as I was punching numbers into the calculator because it was too easy.

ZenGum · 12-21-2011, 06:30 PM

There is a trap in the question - that we might mistake "one-half mile square" for half a square mile, when of course a square half a mile on each side is a quarter of a square mile.

Glatt was way too smart for that. Pfft.

ETA, For this New Years Eve, I'd like to meet a girl as easy as this puzzle.

BigV · 12-21-2011, 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZenGum

There is a trap in the question - that we might mistake "one-half mile square" for half a square mile, when of course a square half a mile on each side is a quarter of a square mile.

Glatt was way too smart for that. Pfft.

ETA, For this New Years Eve, I'd like to meet a girl as easy as this puzzle.

eta: usually, if you can find that button, it's pretty easy from there.

12-20-2011, 06:58 PM	#4
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	I assume it means he started with 8.75c and the first store owner gives him 8.75c. He then spends 10c, leaving him with 7.5c, and so on. Edit: Woops! BigV beat me. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

12-20-2011, 07:01 PM	#5
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Beat you? Bah. You are my colleague--footfootfoot is the designated beater in this thread. I see you also corrected the 2 with a 7. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-20-2011, 08:54 PM	#6
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Well the maths works, but how does he have 8.75 cents? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

12-20-2011, 09:02 PM	#7
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	???? three cent nickels, quarter eagles, all these nuts are cracked. Where is your suspension of disbelief??? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-20-2011, 09:27 PM	#8
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I'm starting to suspect the person who wrote this book was both mental AND nuts. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

12-21-2011, 10:03 AM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Wait, you're keeping score? [/perks up] (not really)

12-20-2011, 09:42 PM	#9
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	might not have happened in US currency. I found a link to a quarter-cent minted in ... Fiji? somewhere...Malaysia Straits. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-21-2011, 10:16 AM	#10
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Today's nut: Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-21-2011, 10:26 AM	#11
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Farm A is worth $4,800 and farm B is worth $1,200.

12-21-2011, 10:37 AM	#12
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Mental Nuts: Rhianne = 1 HLJ = 2 Zen = 1 BigV =1 Glatt = 1 Attached Images __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

12-21-2011, 10:58 AM	#13
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It was easy. I was doubting myself as I was punching numbers into the calculator because it was too easy.

12-21-2011, 06:30 PM	#14
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	There is a trap in the question - that we might mistake "one-half mile square" for half a square mile, when of course a square half a mile on each side is a quarter of a square mile. Glatt was way too smart for that. Pfft. ETA, For this New Years Eve, I'd like to meet a girl as easy as this puzzle. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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