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BigV 12-20-2011 09:02 PM
????

three cent nickels, quarter eagles, all these nuts are cracked. Where is your suspension of disbelief???

ZenGum 12-20-2011 09:27 PM
I'm starting to suspect the person who wrote this book was both mental AND nuts.

BigV 12-20-2011 09:42 PM
might not have happened in US currency. I found a link to a quarter-cent minted in ... Fiji? somewhere...Malaysia Straits.

footfootfoot 12-21-2011 09:06 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 781526)
Well the boy is up a pair of shoes and six bucks, but down a fake tenner.
The neighbour is par - gave change for a fake tenner, but got a real tenner later on.
The shoemaker is therefore down by the same amount the boy is up - one pair boots, six bucks.
Zen gets this one. I misread the answer earlier.

footfootfoot 12-21-2011 09:09 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by BigV (Post 781786)
The man has 8 3/4 cents.

8.75 plus 8.75 equals 17.5 ; 17.5 minus 10 equals 7.5

7.5 plus 7.5 equals 15 ; 15 minus 10 equals 5

5 plus 5 equals 10 ; 10 minus 10 equals 0
Big V is right. I have no idea about how one gets 8 3/4 cents, but no less unlikely than finding a merchant who will give you matching funds to spend at his store. Let's assume the transactions were credit transactions on paper.




Scores so far:

Mental Nuts:
Rhianne = 1
HLJ = 2
Zen = 1
BigV =1

glatt 12-21-2011 10:03 AM
Wait, you're keeping score?

[/perks up]

(not really)

footfootfoot 12-21-2011 10:14 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by glatt (Post 781893)
Wait, you're keeping score?

[/perks up]

(not really)
get busy!

footfootfoot 12-21-2011 10:16 AM
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Today's nut:

glatt 12-21-2011 10:26 AM
Farm A is worth $4,800 and farm B is worth $1,200.

BigV 12-21-2011 10:32 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by glatt (Post 781893)
Wait, you're keeping score?

[/perks up]

(not really)
Shirley, you jest.

footfootfoot 12-21-2011 10:37 AM
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Mental Nuts:
Rhianne = 1
HLJ = 2
Zen = 1
BigV =1
Glatt = 1

glatt 12-21-2011 10:58 AM
It was easy. I was doubting myself as I was punching numbers into the calculator because it was too easy.

ZenGum 12-21-2011 06:30 PM
There is a trap in the question - that we might mistake "one-half mile square" for half a square mile, when of course a square half a mile on each side is a quarter of a square mile.

Glatt was way too smart for that. Pfft.

ETA, For this New Years Eve, I'd like to meet a girl as easy as this puzzle. :)

infinite monkey 12-21-2011 06:45 PM
They try to get you all confused with the illustration. I didn't fall for it, nosirree.

;)

HungLikeJesus 12-21-2011 07:00 PM
But that's only $7.50 per acre! Now I have to figure out how to go back to 1921 to buy some land.


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