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By foot-loose
#319602
What is at the beginning of eternity, and the end of time and space; the beginning of every end and the end of every place?

The same thing that is at the beginning of everything and at the end of foot-loose.

If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?


The grand old Duke of York, he had 100 hundred men. He had them march up to the top of the hill and turn around and shake the hands of every man they passed. How many hand-shakes were there?

9900? Unless the Duke is doing the marching as well in which case it would be 10,000.

Three horses are in a field, starting in a triangular formation, 100m apart from each other, facing the centre. Each horse starts running towards the horse to it's left until it meets the horse. Assuming that the horses are running at the same speed as each other, how far does each horse run?

Hmm. Assuming that the horses are running towards each other then they would constantly correct where they were running to. Therefore they would all reach the centre of the triangle at the same time.

It's a long, long time since I did maths like that, but Id say roughly 43 meters? Maybe

An old professor has decided to paint the 20 steps leading to his house. He buys two colours, red and blue, and paints the steps so that there aren't two blue steps next to each other. What is the name of the professor? (Hint: Find out how many permutations the steps can be painted in)

I've no idea. But he should take up golf.
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By MK Chris
#319603
Console wrote:What is at the beginning of eternity, and the end of time and space; the beginning of every end and the end of every place?

Is it infinity? If not then I don't know.

Console wrote:If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?



Console wrote:The grand old Duke of York, he had 100 hundred men. He had them march up to the top of the hill and turn around and shake the hands of every man they passed. How many hand-shakes were there?

9,900?

I don't know the others.
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By Console
#319605
foot-loose wrote:What is at the beginning of eternity, and the end of time and space; the beginning of every end and the end of every place?

The same thing that is at the beginning of everything and at the end of foot-loose.


Close, it's the same thing that is at the beginning of everything and at the end of Console, but I'll let you have that answer.

foot-loose wrote:The grand old Duke of York, he had 100 hundred men. He had them march up to the top of the hill and turn around and shake the hands of every man they passed. How many hand-shakes were there?

9900


Correct (if you count two men shaking hands as two 'hand-shakes', otherwise it's half that number).

The rest are wrong.
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By ladbroke
#319606
Console wrote:[*]An old professor has decided to paint the 20 steps leading to his house. He buys two colours, red and blue, and paints the steps so that there aren't two blue steps next to each other. What is the name of the professor? (Hint: Find out how many permutations the steps can be painted in)[/list]


Professor Bad Taste....??
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By ladbroke
#319608
OK try this one:
There are 7 girls on a bus
Each girl has 7 backpacks
In each backpack, there are 7 big cats
For every big cat there are 7 little cats

Question: How many legs are there in the bus? :D
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By foot-loose
#319611
If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?
Damn it. The hour hand would have moved round by approxamitly a 1/4 of an hour as well. I'll guess at 7.5°
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By Console
#319613
ladbroke wrote:OK try this one:
There are 7 girls on a bus
Each girl has 7 backpacks
In each backpack, there are 7 big cats
For every big cat there are 7 little cats

Question: How many legs are there in the bus? :D


The question is too ambiguous to answer, as you don't tell us how many seats (with legs) are on the bus, how many people (and animals) are in the bus, whether or not all the people/animals have all their legs etc.
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By foot-loose
#319614
Three horses are in a field, starting in a triangular formation, 100m apart from each other, facing the centre. Each horse starts running towards the horse to it's left until it meets the horse. Assuming that the horses are running at the same speed as each other, how far does each horse run?

Am I right in saying that you need to find the distance from one point to the centre of the triangle and it's just my bad maths thats letting me down? Or am I way off the mark?

As for that painted steps question, i've no idea.
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By foot-loose
#319615
Console wrote:
ladbroke wrote:OK try this one:
There are 7 girls on a bus
Each girl has 7 backpacks
In each backpack, there are 7 big cats
For every big cat there are 7 little cats

Question: How many legs are there in the bus? :D


The question is too ambiguous to answer, as you don't tell us how many seats (with legs) are on the bus, how many people (and animals) are in the bus, whether or not all the people/animals have all their legs etc.

Plus, is there a driver involved?
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By ladbroke
#319616
Console wrote:
ladbroke wrote:OK try this one:
There are 7 girls on a bus
Each girl has 7 backpacks
In each backpack, there are 7 big cats
For every big cat there are 7 little cats

Question: How many legs are there in the bus? :D


The question is too ambiguous to answer, as you don't tell us how many seats (with legs) are on the bus, how many people (and animals) are in the bus, whether or not all the people/animals have all their legs etc.


Lets assume there are no amputees (animal or human), and they are the only ones on the bus, and we dont count the legs of the seats.......
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By Console
#319617
foot-loose wrote:Three horses are in a field, starting in a triangular formation, 100m apart from each other, facing the centre. Each horse starts running towards the horse to it's left until it meets the horse. Assuming that the horses are running at the same speed as each other, how far does each horse run?

Am I right in saying that you need to find the distance from one point to the centre of the triangle and it's just my bad maths thats letting me down? Or am I way off the mark?


You're off the mark. As the horses run towards the next horse, they would be constantly adapting their direction as the other horses adapted theirs, creating a circular path, that would eventually lead to the centre of the triangle.

ladbroke wrote:
Console wrote:
ladbroke wrote:OK try this one:
There are 7 girls on a bus
Each girl has 7 backpacks
In each backpack, there are 7 big cats
For every big cat there are 7 little cats

Question: How many legs are there in the bus? :D


The question is too ambiguous to answer, as you don't tell us how many seats (with legs) are on the bus, how many people (and animals) are in the bus, whether or not all the people/animals have all their legs etc.


Lets assume there are no amputees (animal or human), and they are the only ones on the bus, and we dont count the legs of the seats.......


Ok then, is the difference between 'on' and 'in' deliberate?
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By ladbroke
#319624
There's no play on words, no tricks, you don't count a driver as we assume there isn't one (maybe he's sick!), and you dont count the legs on the chairs! Every human and animal has the normal amount of legs :D
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By Console
#319632
Why would you need pictures? There are seven girls, each with two legs, 49 backpacks, which combined contain 343 big cats and 2401 little cats. All together that's 14 human legs and 10976 cat legs, making a total of 10990 legs.

2 * 7 + 4 * (7^3 + 7^4) = 10990
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By foot-loose
#319633
If it is as basic as it looks then work it backwards:

in one backpack:

7 big cats so 7x7 small cats?

7x7 = 49 small cats x 4 = 196 legs.
7 big cats x 4 = 28 legs
196 + 28 = 224 legs per backpack.

If there are 7 girls with 7 backpacks each then there are 7 x 7 backpacks = 49.

49 x 224 = 10976 legs in all the backpacks.

plus the girls must have some legs in there as well so that will be 2 x 7 = 14 + 10976 = 10990 legs.


I want marks for showing my working as well.
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By S4B
#319634
Console, go out, get drunk, get laid and stop being a geek! Same goes for you Ladbroke, Bruvva and anyone ese who got lots of these questions!
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By ladbroke
#319638
Console wrote:Why would you need pictures?


Erm because it helped me!!

foot-loose wrote:If it is as basic as it looks then work it backwards:

in one backpack:

7 big cats so 7x7 small cats?

7x7 = 49 small cats x 4 = 196 legs.
7 big cats x 4 = 28 legs
196 + 28 = 224 legs per backpack.

If there are 7 girls with 7 backpacks each then there are 7 x 7 backpacks = 49.

49 x 224 = 10976 legs in all the backpacks.

plus the girls must have some legs in there as well so that will be 2 x 7 = 14 + 10976 = 10990 legs.


I want marks for showing my working as well.


Correctamundo :D But for someone with an apptitude for maths, it should be :D
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By ladbroke
#319640
S4B wrote:Console, go out, get drunk, get laid and stop being a geek! Same goes for you Ladbroke, Bruvva and anyone ese who got lots of these questions!


I'm only a part time geek and maths could never be regarded as one of my strong points, ever! :D

P.S. I drink and shag as often as possible though
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