Puzzle time
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 11:21 last edited by jon-nyc 7 Apr 2020, 11:22
Klaus and Anna, two colleagues in the Mathematics Department at University of Wannweil, wind up seated together on the bus to campus.
Klaus begins a conversation with "So, Anna, how are your kids doing? How old are they now, anyway?"
"It turns out," says Anna as she is putting the €1 change from the bus driver into her wallet, "that the sum of their ages is the number of this bus, and the product is the number of Euros that happen to be in my purse at the moment."
"Aha!" replies Klaus. "So, if I remembered how many kids you have, and you told me how much money you are carrying, I could deduce their ages?"
"Actually, no," says Anna.
"In that case," says Klaus, "I know how much money is in your purse."
What is the bus number?
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 12:07 last edited by
Zero?
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 12:09 last edited by jon-nyc 7 Apr 2020, 12:09
Let's assume a non zero number of kids whose ages are positive integers.
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 12:10 last edited by
Besides, we know she has at least one Euro.
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 12:11 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Puzzle time:
Let's assume a non zero number of kids whose ages are positive integers.
Smartass
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 15:04 last edited by
The bus is the father.
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 15:21 last edited by
The Bus? I guess he could be the father. Those guys get around.
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 15:31 last edited by Catseye3 7 Apr 2020, 15:33
The bus number is 94.
It's very simple. If you assign numbers to the letters of the alphabet, that is, A=1, B=2 and so on, when you spell out I HATE KLAUS, the total comes to 94.
Damnit! This wasn't Klaus's puzzle! Hold on for the corrected answer.
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 15:35 last edited by Catseye3 7 Apr 2020, 15:45
If you spell out I HATE JON, the corrected bus number is 81.
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 15:52 last edited by
The Bus is 36. Mik just posted it above.
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wrote on 4 Jul 2020, 16:04 last edited by
@Catseye3 said in Puzzle time:
If you spell out I HATE JON, the corrected bus number is 81.
Spelling it out is fun, but wait till you try acting it out!
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 01:20 last edited by
bump
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wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 01:36 last edited by
This strikes me as one of those problems that's answerable with a little elbow grease. Is it interesting to get into for some reason?