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(Message started by: Moti on Nov 25^th, 2002, 7:19am)

Title: Cigarette magician
Post by Moti on Nov 25^th, 2002, 7:19am

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?

Title: Re: Cigarette magician
Post by towr on Nov 25^th, 2002, 7:29am

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..)

Title: Re: Cigarette magician
Post by wakiza33 on Sep 12^th, 2014, 8:23am

10.5.

I'm rolling now.... ;)

Title: Re: Cigarette magician
Post by riddler358 on Sep 13^th, 2014, 12:03pm

Obviously [hide]42[/hide]

Title: Re: Cigarette magician
Post by Annettagiles on Sep 22^nd, 2014, 4:48am

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.

Title: Re: Cigarette magician
Post by Annettagiles on Nov 4^th, 2014, 3:45am

total 10.5 is the correct answer

Title: Re: Cigarette magician
Post by ldhseo on Nov 4^th, 2014, 10:29pm

10.5 Ciggerates ;D