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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
PostPosted: December, 8, 2011 - 4:14pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
PostPosted: December, 8, 2011 - 4:20pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
PostPosted: December, 8, 2011 - 4:57pm 
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The other solution is 1 mile above the south pole. If you travel south 1 mile, you're at the south pole so you cannot go west. You spin in place and then go up north 1 mile back to the exact location. For the extra clever solution, you just have to expand on your 3rd solution. You said the circumference is 1 mile, but you could travel south to a circumference of 1/2 a mile and it would still work because you would essentially be doing laps. That holds true for 1/4 mile, 1/8 mile, so the possible solutions would be infinite.

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
PostPosted: December, 8, 2011 - 9:19pm 
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Russell Casse wrote:
The other solution is 1 mile above the south pole. If you travel south 1 mile, you're at the south pole so you cannot go west. You spin in place and then go up north 1 mile back to the exact location. For the extra clever solution, you just have to expand on your 3rd solution. You said the circumference is 1 mile, but you could travel south to a circumference of 1/2 a mile and it would still work because you would essentially be doing laps. That holds true for 1/4 mile, 1/8 mile, so the possible solutions would be infinite.


OK, I got beef with your first answer. Since you're at the South pole, ANY direction you travel is north. there is no west/east at the south pole, only north. That being said, the second answer makes sense, though i'm not surprised i didn't come up with it.

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
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A shopkeeper says she has two new baby beagles to show you, but she doesn't know whether they're male, female, or a pair. You tell her that you want only a male, and she telephones the fellow who's giving them a bath. "Is at least one a male?" she asks him. "Yes!" she informs you with a smile. What is the probability that the other one is a male?

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
PostPosted: April, 24, 2013 - 8:18pm 
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Russell Casse wrote:
A shopkeeper says she has two new baby beagles to show you, but she doesn't know whether they're male, female, or a pair. You tell her that you want only a male, and she telephones the fellow who's giving them a bath. "Is at least one a male?" she asks him. "Yes!" she informs you with a smile. What is the probability that the other one is a male?


Going with 1/3

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
PostPosted: April, 24, 2013 - 8:21pm 
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You gotta give the why.

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
PostPosted: April, 24, 2013 - 8:33pm 
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if its two dogs there are only 4 possible combos, if we already know one is male then I assumed 1/3 cause it cant be female + female. I kind of think 50/50 makes sense too but that would be too easy, but i essentially look at male + female and female + male the same, I dont know haha

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
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That's pretty much the reason. The tricky thing is more in how the question is phrased. You actually don't know what sex the dog she's holding is. So the only bit of information you have is that one of the dogs is male. That eliminates the F/F combination leaving you with the other 3 possible combinations.

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
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Could you explain why it wouldn't be 50/50? You know one dog is male. The other is either female or male. If at least one is male then the other can be one of two options, male or female.

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
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But you don't know which dog is male. You just know one of them is male. It's the wording of the question that throws your brain off. You're assuming the bather is holding the male.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_or_Girl_paradox

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If she is holding a female dog there is a 100% chance the other dog is male. If she is holding a male dog there is a 50% chance the other dog is male.

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
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Three men rent a hotel room. Each pays $10 for a total of $30 spent on the room. The next day the hotel owner tells the three men that they over paid for the room as it only costs $25. The three men tell the owner to give them each a dollar back and he can keep two dollars.

If you do the math, each man paid $9 a piece for the room for a total of $27. The owner kept $2 which brings the total to $29.

The question is where did the other dollar go?

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 Post subject: Re: Riddle Me This
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Because 25 3 ways is 8.33, they got back too much change. Or... They left the other dollar for the maid.


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