Alcoblog Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Anyone know how to solve this? You see a shirt for £97, you can't afford it so u borrow £50 from your mum and £50 from your dad which equals £100. You buy the shirt and get £3 change so you give your dad £1 and your mum £1 back and you keep the other pound. So now you owe your mum £49 and dad £49, 49+49 =98 + your £1 =99. Where's the missing £1? Hang on ... so you've got a quid left, even though one's gone missing? If you give your ma and pa 50p each of that quid, you then owe them each£48.50. Add that together and it comes to £97 ... you've got nothing left, so where's the £3 gone to!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 I know, but I wanted a pasty. Where can you get a pasty for a quid, without losing the shirt off your back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Hang on ... so you've got a quid left, even though one's gone missing? If you give your ma and pa 50p each of that quid, you then owe them each£48.50. Add that together and it comes to £97 ... you've got nothing left, so where's the £3 gone to!? Oh Alco, don't you have any dead bees to count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoblog Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Oh Alco, don't you have any dead bees to count? Yeah six!(wasps) ... I've set up a trust fund for them and given all of them £1 each from a tenner ... I still have £4 left! Shouldn't it be £3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Yeah six!(wasps) ... I've set up a trust fund for them and given all of them £1 each from a tenner ... I still have £4 left! Shouldn't it be £3? :hihi: Sorry, wasps of course, I guess they'll sting you for more than bees would do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliceBB Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 The missing pound is irrelevent. The really important question of course is why the hell you are spending £97 on a shirt in the first place when by your own admission you cannot afford it and why your parents are stupid enough to encourage you in this waste of money by lending you £50 each? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoblog Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 :hihi: Sorry, wasps of course, I guess they'll sting you for more than bees would do Maybe this mathematical conundrum only works if you buy a shirt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stvoider Posted September 13, 2011 Author Share Posted September 13, 2011 I might be betraying my ignorance but I'm still not getting it. £100 in debt. Pay back £2 of the £3 change from the shirt purchase thus decreasing the debt to £98. With £2 of the £3 change now gone that leaves only £1. £98 + £1 = £99 My brain is melting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Maybe this mathematical conundrum only works if you buy a shirt? Do you know, that's just what I was thinking..a shirt with a lurid wasp/bee design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 I might be betraying my ignorance but I'm still not getting it. £100 in debt. Pay back £2 of the £3 change from the shirt purchase thus decreasing the debt to £98. With £2 of the £3 change now gone that leaves only £1. £98 + £1 = £99 My brain is melting LOL, why aren't you paying back all of the change? There's the answer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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