Let Me Post Another Riddle Then...
<div class="IPBDescription">Since the other one got solved</div> Here it goes:
3 Boys have each $25,-
They decided to buy a videogame, which costs $75,-
After the paid, the salesman remembered the videogame had a discount of $5,-
So he sent a co-worker after the boys with five seperate dollars.
When the co-worker walked to the boys he thought: "How am I gonna split 5 dollars among 3 boys equally?"
So he put 2 dollars into his own pocket and decided to give the boys three dollar back. And so he did.
That means that all the boys spend 24 dollar...
3 times 24 is 72.... + the 2 dollar of the co-worker makes <b>74</b>
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Where did that 1 dollar go???</span>
3 Boys have each $25,-
They decided to buy a videogame, which costs $75,-
After the paid, the salesman remembered the videogame had a discount of $5,-
So he sent a co-worker after the boys with five seperate dollars.
When the co-worker walked to the boys he thought: "How am I gonna split 5 dollars among 3 boys equally?"
So he put 2 dollars into his own pocket and decided to give the boys three dollar back. And so he did.
That means that all the boys spend 24 dollar...
3 times 24 is 72.... + the 2 dollar of the co-worker makes <b>74</b>
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Where did that 1 dollar go???</span>
Comments
Boys originally pay 75. 5 is removed for the discount, so the boys should only pay 70.
Of the discount, 3 goes to the boys and 2 the co-owners keeps.
The reason it confuses you is because of the last sum.
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3 X 24 is 72, then 2 of that is kept by the co-owner, so you should <b>minus</b> 2, not add. Which means 72 - 2 = 70 which is what the game should cost.
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<li>1: Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
<li>2: I am on three legs when I rest and one when I work.
<li>3: I am used to bat with, yet I never get a hit. I am near a ball, yet it is never thrown.
<li>4: I can be short and sometimes hot. When displayed, I rarely impress.
<li>5: I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.
<li>6: Buckets, barrels, baskets, cans. What must you fill with empty hands?
<li>7: I am sometimes strong and sometimes weak, but I am nobody's fool. For there is no language that I can't speak, though I never went to school.
<li>8: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside.
<li>9: You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead.
<li>10: I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it.
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thats an onion
That is trees, I am sure.
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A human skull.<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><li>8: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> An Artichoke?
A wheelbarrow.
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Eyelashes.
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Temper.
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Gloves.
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An echo.
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An ear of corn.
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A splinter.
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i'd of thought Leaves...