So you think ur CLEVER?

[Impulse]

Re: So you think ur CLEVER?

@mAd_ScIeNtIsT

You’ll see … I’ll post photos

you’re getting corrupted

[_RestLess]

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Impulse…i solved the puzzle

lQQkin around for the impulsive award of the year

[Impulse]

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@~RestLess~

Its all how the ques. is asked

When the friends paid $10 (or pounds) each, they had paid $30 in total

When the shop-keeper gave $5 to the delivery driver, the 3 friends had paid $25 to the shop-keeper and $5 to the delivery driver for the delivery. <------ This is the tricky part, 25+5= 30 (total cost)

Now when the delivery driver gave them $3 each, the friends had paid $25 to the shop-keeper and $2 to delivery driver $25+$2 = $27 = 3 x $9.
27+3(that the driver gave them back)=30

SOLVED

u r wrong. answer the question I gave you. dont make ur own :nono:

[_RestLess]

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arrayyyyyy ....uhoon uhoon uhoOoOOOO wipe eyes with kameez ki sleeve

Meray khayal mein....... shop-keeper nay $5 unhi $30 mein say deay they jo teeno doston nay usay deay they. un panch dollar mein say 3 doston ko mill gaye or 2 delivery walay nay rakh leay. pooray 30 ho gaye. haina haina

[Impulse]

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@~RestLess~

arrayyyyyy …uhoon uhoon uhoOoOOOO wipe eyes with kameez ki sleeve

Meray khayal mein… shop-keeper nay $5 unhi $30 mein say deay they jo teeno doston nay usay deay they. un panch dollar mein say 3 doston ko mill gaye or 2 delivery walay nay rakh leay. pooray 30 ho gaye. haina haina

acha…so this means that each dost gets $1 back right? so in other words they ended up paying $9 each for the TV.

so if they paid $9 each…that makes $27 between them. but driver also kept $2. but where did the $1 go ?

[James_Bhaand]

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this question is in pounds

i can solve it if it is in ruppees :halo:

[Impulse]

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@James_Bhaand

this question is in pounds

i can solve it if it is in ruppees :halo:

acha challey…aap rupees meh hisaab kar le

[_RestLess]

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Impulse bibi.......Jab shopkeeper nay $5 unhi $30 main say deay aur bad mein delivery driver nay $3 dollar deay to unko Tv $28 ka para naaaaaaaaaaaaaa

aur $2 delivery driver nay rakh leay

Kiya hay :@ .....

yehi hay Jawab.

[The_Hunk]

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U tell me where I can buy a TV for 30 bucks and I’ll tell u where the 1 dollar went

[Impulse]

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@~RestLess~

Impulse bibi…Jab shopkeeper nay $5 unhi $30 main say deay aur bad mein delivery driver nay $3 dollar deay to unko Tv $28 ka para naaaaaaaaaaaaaa

aur $2 delivery driver nay rakh leay

Kiya hay :@ …

yehi hay Jawab.

nehi ullo de pathe (pathi? ) they all got £1 back…so they each payed £9 for the TV…that makes £27. plus £2 driver got. that makes £29. where did £1 go ?

[_RestLess]

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Pathi that iz. Mainay sahi bataya hay G

[Impulse]

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@~RestLess~

Pathi that iz. Mainay sahi bataya hay G

nehi…waisey aap to brain damage ho…challo niklo mere thread sai

[phatima]

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@The Hunk

U tell me where I can buy a TV for 30 bucks and I’ll tell u where the 1 dollar went

Nah that’s in POUNDS. British, yo

[ch_and-be_ii]

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Restless has already shown the friggin solution. But Impulse as usual won't budge.

So I will try to put it the simplest way I can...

Why does ...
cost of tv - what the buyers got back + what the driver kept for himself .. have to be equal to the cost of tv?

The tv was defective and thus the shopkeeper gave a certain amount back. Which got divided among buyers and the driver. It doesn't necessarily have to add up to the cost of the tv..

for eg.

In case if the shopkeeper gave back 7 dollars. The driver gave 3 dollars to the buyers and kept 4 for himself. Now according to the way the problem is constructed.. again each paid 9 after getting 1 dollar back.. so 3X9 = 27. and 27+ 4( what driver kept) = 31. In this case u get a dollar more.. ;)

You do it with 8 dollars. 3 to the buyers.. and 5 for the driver. again 3X9 = 27 and 27+5=32.
with 9.. it will be 33.. and so on and so forth.

So the gist is, what the shopkeeper gave back doesn't account into the tv's cost. It's all in the way it has been twisted and presented. It compels us to form an equation which doesn't hold true.

[Crescent]

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Makes u dumb dumb, not clever :p

[insan]

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here u go impulse baji i got the answer

tv= $30- 25

25/3 = 8.333

but each of them got $1 back which means 25 + 3 =28

28/3 = 9.333333 which they did not pay $9 but they paid $9 and 33 cents for each and plus 2 dollor from driver which makes 30 dollor :)

am i right ?? nice math question i like it :)

[Mr_Bombastic]

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old bitchi got revived again lol … dang dude i never got to the conclusion of this one either .. i even asked it to my Alg 2 teacher lol yea man its a perfect way to make them look stupid

[pietra_dura]

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No i m not

[insan]

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am i right or not ??? impluse baji ?? ? :halo:

[Wran_Alak]

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THIS IS THE ANSWER OF THE QUESTION...

ANSWER NO. 1

shopkeeper driver guys

$0 $0 $30 <-- guys have not yet paid for room
$30 $0 $0 <-- guys pay deskman
$25 $5 $0 <-- shopkeeper pays driver

$25 $2 $3 <-- driver stiffs guys

$25 $2 -$27 <-- what each group of people has
after all the transactions

Here, the last row is simply the difference between row 4 and row 1. In all but the last row, the sum of the dollar values along each row is constant and equal to $30. In the last row, the apparent fallacy is that the guys and the driver should have 30 dollars between them, but this statement is false, as it obviously ignores the question of what the shopkeeper has. In fact, the correct statement about the last row is that the sum of what the shopkeeper and the driver have must equal the debt of the three guys.
The guys have collectively paid 27 dollars for the tv, which is obvious, since the driver took $2 and the actual cost was $25. And so we see that there is no missing dollar, because the $27 the guys paid is a debt, written as a negative number, and the $2 the driver took is a profit, which is a positive number, and the sum is not $29, but a debt of $25, which was paid to the shopkeeper.
To exaggerate the example, suppose the cost of the tv is $5, the driver taking $22, the guys getting $3. Then it becomes clear that the $27 that the guys wind up paying for the tv "plus" the $22 the driver takes just doesn't equal anything meaningful. What's going on is that $22 of the $27 that the guys pay has wound up in the driver pocket, so adding $22 to $27 is in essence counting the driver's money twice.

ANSWER NO.2

Let's give each of the $30 a number from 1-30, keep track of each individual dollar, and see how the problem works.
Dollars numbered 1-30 are given to the shopkeeper. Then he wants to give $5 back, so he keeps the dollars numbered 1-25, and gives numbers 26-30 to the driver in the form of a five dollar bill. The driver splits up the five to get 5 one's: numbers 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30. He gives numbers 26, 27 and 28 to the guys and keeps numbers 29 and 30 for himself.