Can you solve this riddle/maths question?

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Andrew

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May 15, 2008

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #1

You are in a shop, and you see a snazzy pair of jeans for £97.

You have no money on you though, so you borrow £50 from person 1 and £50 from person 2.

You are left with £3, so you give £1 to person 1, and £1 to person 2 and you keep £1.

So you owe your two friends in total 49 x 2 = £98

You have £1 so that's £99.

So where has the other pound gone...?

 

skipper734

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Aug 9, 2008

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Curdridge

• Nov 16, 2011

• #2

Anyone considering spending £97 on a pair of jeans deserves to be fleeced.

 

Butch Willykins

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Jun 17, 2011

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #3

How about this for a maths riddle...

I spend £30 on a book Travel Vouchers prior to the Doncaster Game.

I attend all home games and do not have my voucher collected/checked once.

Friends attend all games but they did not buy vouchers so spend £0

Where has my £30 gone?

 

Butch Willykins

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #4

skipper734 said:

Anyone considering spending £97 on a pair of jeans deserves to be fleeced.

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They are Snazzy though...

 

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Andrew

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• #5

Take this seriously guys, I don't know either so anyone who gets it is my hero as it's been bigging me all night!

 

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Fozzyboy

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Jul 5, 2011

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #6

You technically borrow £98, the jeans come to £97 & you are left with £1.

 

Publius Ovidius

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Jul 5, 2003

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #7

The answer is Kleos.

Homer rocks

 

pasty

A different kind of pasty

Jul 5, 2003

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #8

42.

 

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Andrew

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• #9

Fozzyboy said:

You technically borrow £98, the jeans come to £97 & you are left with £1.

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You borrow 100.

 

Butch Willykins

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #10

Fozzyboy said:

You technically borrow £98, the jeans come to £97 & you are left with £1.

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This. You aren't borrowing £100. You borrow £98 (2x£49).

 

Twinkle Toes

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Apr 4, 2008

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #11

It's actually very straightforward. The missing Quid was spent on a rubbish dvd in Poundland. Well either that, or some batteries.

 

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Andrew

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• #12

You have £100 to start with, so all numbers have to add to 100.

 

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pauli cee

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #13

that works, but i'm still confused....

 

Butch Willykins

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #14

Andrew said:

You have £100 to start with, so all numbers have to add to 100.

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Yes, but you only Borrow £98.

The Vaule of the goods is £97.

So you borrow £98, leaving the pound left over for yourself.

 

Mackenzie

Old Brightonian

Nov 7, 2003

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East Wales

• Nov 16, 2011

• #15

Primark is much cheaper, you could have got 5 or 6 pair there......and had enough change for a pizza.

 

bobby smith

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #16

Andrew said:

You are in a shop, and you see a snazzy pair of jeans for £97.

You have no money on you though, so you borrow £50 from person 1 and £50 from person 2.

You are left with £3, so you give £1 to person 1, and £1 to person 2 and you keep £1.

So you owe your two friends in total 49 x 2 = £98

You have £1 so that's £99.

So where has the other pound gone...?

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If you give them both £1.50 back u then owe each of them£48.50 x 2 = £97 total cost of JEANS

 

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Robdinho

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Jul 26, 2004

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #17

Mathematically speaking, you're just adding the pound on the wrong side of the equation.

To take it a step further:
You pay them back their £49 each then that's -£98 for you
But you still have the £1
So you've paid £97 for the jeans.
Which is right.

 

bobby smith

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #18

bobby smith said:

If you give them both £1.50 back u then owe each of them£48.50 x 2 = £97 total cost of JEANS

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Why does NO ONE ever answer MY POSTS on here

 

bobby smith

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• #19

Robdinho said:

Mathematically speaking, you're just adding the pound on the wrong side of the equation.

To take it a step further:
You pay them back their £49 each then that's -£98 for you
But you still have the £1
So you've paid £97 for the jeans.
Which is right.

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bobby smith

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• Nov 16, 2011

• #20

Robdinho said:

Mathematically speaking, you're just adding the pound on the wrong side of the equation.

To take it a step further:
You pay them back their £49 each then that's -£98 for you
But you still have the £1
So you've paid £97 for the jeans.
Which is right.

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Now uve REALLY CONFUSED him