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wu :: forums    riddles    easy (Moderators: SMQ, ThudnBlunder, Icarus, william wu, towr, Eigenray, Grimbal)    Cigarette magician « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: Cigarette magician  (Read 2377 times) Moti Newbie     Gender: Posts: 17 Cigarette magician   « on: Nov 25th, 2002, 7:19am » Quote Modify Here is a cute one,   There is a beggar who can make a new cigarette from 4 cigarette buds. One morning he collects 32 buds on the street, how many cigarettes can he smoke that day?   IP Logged towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: Cigarette magician   « Reply #1 on: Nov 25th, 2002, 7:29am » Quote Modify well, 32/4 =8 so he can smoke those 8, which leaves him 8 buds, so he can make another 8/4 = 2 cigarettes, which leaves him 2 sigarette buds, which one could assume enables him to make half a cigarette which he could then smoke again.. that totals 10.5   So he's left with one cigarette bud.. You could say he can make 1/4th of a cigarette with that and smoke it.. Which would leave him with one cigarette bud, which he could make 1/4th of a cigarette out of.... It will last a very long time this way   (this is like zeno's paradox, but with cigarettes..) IP Logged Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB wakiza33 Junior Member industrial Engineer // Berkeley Alumnus     Posts: 54 Re: Cigarette magician   « Reply #2 on: Sep 12th, 2014, 8:23am » Quote Modify 10.5.   I'm rolling now.... IP Logged Binder Jetting Engineer riddler358 Junior Member     Posts: 84 Re: Cigarette magician   « Reply #3 on: Sep 13th, 2014, 12:03pm » Quote Modify Obviously 42 IP Logged Annettagiles Junior Member     Gender: Posts: 67 Re: Cigarette magician   « Reply #4 on: Sep 22nd, 2014, 4:48am » Quote Modify From the 32 cigarette buds he can get 8 cigarettes and from that 8 he can get 2 so total 10 cigarettes now and from those 2 cigarettes he can get half of a cigarette which equals totally 10.5 cigarettes can be smoked by that person on that day. IP Logged Annettagiles Junior Member     Gender: Posts: 67 Re: Cigarette magician   « Reply #5 on: Nov 4th, 2014, 3:45am » Quote Modify total 10.5 is the correct answer IP Logged ldhseo Newbie     Posts: 2 Re: Cigarette magician   « Reply #6 on: Nov 4th, 2014, 10:29pm » Quote Modify 10.5 Ciggerates   IP Logged Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print Forum Jump: ----------------------------- riddles -----------------------------=> easy   - medium   - hard   - what am i   - what happened   - microsoft   - cs   - putnam exam (pure math)   - suggestions, help, and FAQ   - general problem-solving / chatting / whatever ----------------------------- general -----------------------------  - guestbook   - truth   - complex analysis   - wanted   - psychology   - chinese « Previous topic | Next topic »

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