If you can work out how many eggs are here you probably have a high IQ :clap:
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There's a formula for the sum of square numbers.
Dyou want us to answer Alex?
Quote from: Alex on April 18, 2023, 02:19:42 PMIf you can work out how many eggs are here you probably have a high IQ :clap:
Not sure about IQ but you probably had to visit more than one supermarket to get them...
:smiley:
I have worked out how many ,to include the hidden ones.
I can also see how many there are showing..including just a glimpse of one..
I'm not too quick with numbers..
I'm going to give my numbers..
30.. including those hidden..
17.. on show.. including part of one.
I worked it out to be 30 too, does that make Scrumpy and me genius'? that's if we are right of course and there is not a hidden catch there.
I get it to 30 as well but there's probably a catch.
The amswer was 17 so well done Scrumpy ! It's all in the wording :grin:
Indeed, well done. I had 30 as well.
You should go on 1% gameshow Scrumpy, its all about these sorts of questions.
Bottom layer is 4*4=16
Next layer is 3*3=9
then 2*2=4
plus one on top= 16+9+4+1=30
Not rocket science to an o level in Maths from 1971. More passing the eleven plus in 1966 level.
No!!.. No!!!... I can't believe it.. I've never won anything in my life..
Bring on the Lottery...
The correct answer is, of course, none at all. It's a picture on a computer screen.
Quote from: Scrumpy on April 19, 2023, 09:24:02 AMNo!!.. No!!!... I can't believe it.. I've never won anything in my life..
Bring on the Lottery...
Aren't you going to give a tearful speech like they do at the BAFTAs etc, thanking family, friends etc?
Oh! ok then.. If you insist..
' I would like to thank my dear mother who gave me life..
Not my father who buggered off with an usherette .. we don't talk about him.. Poor mum. '
pause to dab at tears..
' I would like to thank my husband.. Not my first one.. He enjoyed beer and women.. but managed to stay sober one night to make my darling son.. I remember that night.. we were... Perhaps I won't go there..'
Pause.. to correct wobbly knees..
'I would like to thank , my second one, who fathered our daughter .. The night wasn't as good as the night my son was made... but I won't go there'
Pause to wipe away tear..
'I would like to thank my lovers in between.. Some good.. some not so good.. but I won't go there either or mention names because the wives might be in the audience'
'I would like to thank Dennis my handyman who made sure my motor was always running smoothly.. and the guy who services my boiler once a year..
The gardener who trims my bushes and cuts the grass... The Amazon man who opens my porch door to deliver 'goodies'..
Lastly, I would like to thank Tracey at the Co-op who reassures me on a daily basis that I am clever..'
Thank you... Kiss.. kiss ... kiss..
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:yay: :yay: :yay:
Thank you.. I am all humbled...
:grin: :grin: :grin:
Scrumpy, I thought that you had missed Tracey out but see she was at the end. Poor Tracey, left to the end.
Tracey has returned to the homeless shelter after a hard day of eating sandwiches and sausage rolls donated by customers who saw her in her usual place, in a cardboard box outside the coop.
The answer is actually (17+i13) as there must be an imaginary component holding the eggs up.
That'd be complex
:grin: :grin: :grin:
We had a mandatory reading course at uni on complex analysis, which involved buying a textbook and, er, reading it. By pure chance, the author of the book was a lecturer at the uni. Funny old world, eh?? :boo:
... and that was for a degree in media studies too ... :grin:
Quote from: klondike on April 20, 2023, 10:26:27 AM... and that was for a degree in media studies too ... :grin:
History of contemporary American Art in fact. It's been endlessly useful throughout the years.
Quote from: Ashy on April 20, 2023, 07:34:49 AMThe answer is actually (17+i13) as there must be an imaginary component holding the eggs up.
It's the eggs you can see Ashy, hence the wording. A trick :grin:
Except..
If you can work out how many eggs are here you probably have a high IQ?
Asks nothing about how many eggs you can see.
"work out" and "are here" suggests to me that the answer is how many eggs would be needed to make the pyramid.
We need crabby to adjudicate. Except he never knew any of the answers.
Oh No !! Does that mean that I am not the only one with an High IQ..
My 5 mins of fame.. gone down the plug hole.. :boo:
Quote from: klondike on April 20, 2023, 12:53:25 PMExcept..
If you can work out how many eggs are here you probably have a high IQ?
Asks nothing about how many eggs you can see.
"work out" and "are here" suggests to me that the answer is how many eggs would be needed to make the pyramid.
We need crabby to adjudicate. Except he never knew any of the answers.
Worse than that. We can only see part of each egg, so it might be fewer that have been cut apart to give the illusion.
Or as I said way back none because it's only pixels on a screen.
April 20, 2023, 01:16:06 PMQuote from: Scrumpy on April 20, 2023, 01:08:56 PMOh No !! Does that mean that I am not the only one with an High IQ..
My 5 mins of fame.. gone down the plug hole.. :boo:
You got both answers so you are still a star.
Well apart from saying none which is the real answer :grin:
Quote from: Scrumpy on April 20, 2023, 01:08:56 PMOh No !! Does that mean that I am not the only one with an High IQ..
My 5 mins of fame.. gone down the plug hole.. :boo:
No it doesn't Scrumpy, it's these bloody fellas always have to dig into things and take too seriously. You were the only one to get 17 :upvote: well done girl :grin:
Quote from: klondike on April 20, 2023, 01:14:43 PMOr as I said way back none because it's only pixels on a screen.
April 20, 2023, 01:16:06 PMYou got both answers so you are still a star.
Well apart from saying none which is the real answer :grin:
So, in the next puzzle, if I wrote down every number going (which, I grant you, might take a bit of a while), would that make me the winner?
April 20, 2023, 02:12:17 PMDon't suppose this site supports LaTex codes?
No need for anything like that. Just use crayons. It's all most of us here are allowed these days anyway.
it says 'how many are here'. NOT hiw many can you see- so 30
It's turning nasty :nooo: :yay: :yay:
April 20, 2023, 03:26:17 PM
Let's ask a simpler one, to divert attention.
If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will 6 hens lay in 7 days?
Here's an emoji of a hen, just to cheer you up. 🐔
Where are you getting this half a hen from?
Morrison's !!!!! Half price..
I was going to say here are two but then I realised....
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No eggs from them :grin:
Quote from: dextrous63 on April 20, 2023, 02:10:54 PMSo, in the next puzzle, if I wrote down every number going (which, I grant you, might take a bit of a while), would that make me the winner?
Yes 👶
Anyway back to the important stuff...
Quote from: dextrous63 on April 20, 2023, 03:22:58 PMIf a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs will 6 hens lay in 7 days?
Quardrupling to 6 hens we get 6 hens laying 6 eggs in the day and a half allowed. So in 7 days we get 24 eggs and 6 hens part way to producing another egg each. This suggests an error on the part of the questioner to me.
We should have more of these quizzes :grin:
Quote from: klondike on April 21, 2023, 12:06:07 PMAnyway back to the important stuff...
Quardrupling to 6 hens we get 6 hens laying 6 eggs in the day and a half allowed. So in 7 days we get 24 eggs and 6 hens part way to producing another egg each. This suggests an error on the part of the questioner to me.
We should have more of these quizzes :grin:
Incorrect logic!!
Apology accepted. :grin:
No, your logic is in error
Ok then perhaps we shouldn't have more quizzes but I though it livened the place up.
Maybe if we started with some easier ones...
A man is looking at the portrait of a family member. When asked who it is, he said:
Brothers and Sisters, I have none
But that man's father is my father's son.
Who is it a portrait of?
Quote from: klondike on April 21, 2023, 12:06:07 PMAnyway back to the important stuff...
Quardrupling to 6 hens we get 6 hens laying 6 eggs in the day and a half allowed. So in 7 days we get 24 eggs and 6 hens part way to producing another egg each. This suggests an error on the part of the questioner to me.
We should have more of these quizzes :grin:
Couldn't we settle for 84 1/2 eggs?
There is a great deal of interpretation involved when considering half eggs and half chickens.
Now I had assumed these to be purely maths teacher hypothetical chickens of the type any student in History of American Art would be taught about but if they are real world chickens of the type a more normal fellow would expect then an alternate approach is possible.
In the real world half a chicken may feature with chips but in no way will it be laying any eggs. Equally half an egg wouldn't be an egg cut in half but one half way through the production process.
Given that the half chicken can be excluded when considering eggs and the egg and a half produced by the chicken and a half in a day and a half becomes far closer to the real world chicken egg production rate of one egg per day and the result of the question is then that 42 eggs are indeed produced by 6 hens in 7 days all being well.
OMG
My son keeps chickens. Rehomed ones. Only one left now of the last batch. You can't get a fresh lot til she has gone to the great battery in the sky. Pecking order is a real thing for chickens. Well whole ones anyway.
A truly sententious question :wink:
In the replies stakes it, along with subsequent discussion, has beaten any puzzle crabby posted by a goodly margin. I firmly belief that a degree on insanity stops you going mad.
Don't suppose there's a chance of an actual answer !
I suppose there isn't. Hey ho I shall try to curb my intense disappointment.
Quote from: dextrous63 on April 21, 2023, 03:45:03 PMMaybe if we started with some easier ones...
A man is looking at the portrait of a family member. When asked who it is, he said:
Brothers and Sisters, I have none
But that man's father is my father's son.
Who is it a portrait of?
ME....
42 eggs is incorrect.
"ME" is also incorrect.
Although probably wrong, it is reasonable to suppose that half a hen is in fact dead. Therefore a hen and a half to lay an egg and a half in a day and a half is actually means that the laying hen has with her, half a dead hen. Now the question of how to lay half and egg? Well as such it's impossible although it could be a average of half an egg in a day and a half which is one egg in three days on average.
So considering first the whole eggs laid in single days, these are 42 as had already been noted. To these we must add the average of one egg every three days of which there are a further 14, making 56 in all, by which time the dead half a hen would be quite smelly.
However as the question relates to 6 hens over 7 days and not one hen over 42 days per se, we expect 12 additional eggs over the first six days and additional eggs between 0 and 6 on the seventh day as this is indeterminate, since they might not lay the extra eggs until the ninth day; thus 54 - 60 in practice.
Incorrect.
Start from the correct point made by Klondy that 6 hens will lay 6 eggs in 1.5 days. The next stage is to work out how many eggs those 6 hens will lay in 1 day.
Quote from: Scrumpy on April 22, 2023, 09:40:40 AMME....
When I said me.. I meant 'himself'.
I viewed the picture through my eyes..
Quote from: Scrumpy on April 22, 2023, 03:59:48 PMWhen I said me.. I meant 'himself'.
I viewed the picture through my eyes..
I know. Still wrong though.
Am I looking at my grandson. ?
Nope
Bugger..
You would laugh if you saw all the working out I have done .. It's doing my head in..
April 22, 2023, 05:39:32 PM
Son.
I think 1955vintage has cracked it..
I'm a failure..
Sadly he did.
Quote from: 1955vintage on April 22, 2023, 05:40:40 PMSon.
Congratulations ✔️
April 22, 2023, 06:01:19 PMMy father's son = himself
So, he's saying I am that man's father.
Phew!! That was hard going..
Here's another one:
I went to a hardware store to purchase some things. I noticed that one cost £1, ten cost £2, and one hundred cost £3
What was I buying?
Delete
House numbers!
number 1 cost £1
Number 10 cost £2
Number 100 cost £3
:clap:
Quote from: GrannyMac on April 22, 2023, 06:50:13 PMHouse numbers!
number 1 cost £1
Number 10 cost £2
Number 100 cost £3
:clap:
Well done ✔️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Quote from: dextrous63 on April 22, 2023, 06:41:00 PMDelete
You can remove your own posts here. For quite some time after they are made too. At the bottom of any of your own posts you will see a "MORE" button and remove is one of the options.
It's part of the no moderators thing to give people the option to remove something they later think may be better not said. Of course if they were quoted I think those quotes remain.
Thanks. I did click the more button to see what was there, but nothing happened. Maybe it's my iPhone?
Here's one.
A musical family have six children. David, Ruby, Michael, Frances, Sebastian, and Laura.
What should they call no 7?
James, Eliza, or Timothy?
Timothy.
Sound of music😉
Timothy
The music scales.. Doh Ray Me
fooled me
Quote from: dextrous63 on April 22, 2023, 11:37:08 PMThanks. I did click the more button to see what was there, but nothing happened. Maybe it's my iPhone?
Yes it seems to be phones. Maybe tablets too. My Android phone doesn't show the options either unless I have it use Desktop site which I do for many sites as the simplified mobile versions often leave out things I use.
April 23, 2023, 09:44:47 AMShe might not be pleased with being called Timothy though... :grin:
The list does go boy girl boy girl ....
It might be a complete septet of trannies though. We all know how artistes need to be in touch with themselves. I suspect some do a bit too much of touching themselves, but that's a different issue 😬
Dextrous & Scrumpy :check: :check:
Simply about the starting initial, doh, ray, me etc. Very funny K.
Pinched it from 1%, I watched it with my grandson last night, he got it. OH and son were at the Crucible watching the snooker.
But if they have six children there is no number 7. :smiley:
7 is Tee doh, ray, me fah, so la tee