The Paradox
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Peace Someone,
Let me break it down for you
Hotel fee $30.00
Split between 3 people $10.00 each
Rebate $5.00
Bellboy keeps $2.00 and returns the remaining $3.00 to the 3 people.
New split between 3 people $9.00 each (10 original, -1 from the bellboy)
Bellboy kept $2.00
3*9+2=29
there's one dollar missing
enjoy wink
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John, Joe, and Jack rented a room. The room cost $30.00. They chipped in $10.00 each. The clerk realized that he had overcharged them. He asked the bellboy to return $5.00 to the men. The bellboy decided to keep $2.00, and return $1.00 to each of the men. 2+1+1+1=5
In the end, the men end up spending $9.00 each (10-1=9), and the bellboy kept $2.00.
Joe- $9.00
John- $9.00
Jack- $9.00
Bellboy- $2.009*3=27
27+2=29Where's the missing dollar?
Well there is no missing dollar. It's true that each of them paid $9 in the end - therefore a total of $27 is paid to the hotel.
The hotel keeper has $25 and the bell boy has stolen $2 = $27
Again it's the way the final question is asked that confuses the issue )
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Peace Truth,
Again it's the way the final question is asked that confuses the issue )
This is true. But with math being concrete, the problem should not arise, right? I mean when we say the clerk has 25, and the bellboy has 2, and the 3 guests have 3, then it's easy to see 25+2+3=30. But when worded differently and approached with a different formula, we lose a dollar.
Would you say that the formula I chose is wrong for this problem?
Peace,
Tay -
It's the introduction of the bellboy's money where the problem occurs.
See the 3 men are the payers of the money whereas the bellboy is not a payer but in effect a payee - he receives, as does the clerk.
Therefore the payers have paid (10-1) + (10-1) + (10-1) = 27
and the recipients have received 25 + 2 = 27.
So the way it is summed in the end of the anecdote is incorrect.
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Peace Tay, all,
Yes, the forumula you presented was wrong, which is why it gave a wrong answer.
The men ended up spending $27 ($9 each) = $25 + $2 once the refund was given.
There were two incorrect steps in the formula. The first was to assume that what they had spent was $30, even though they had only spent $27. The second was to add $2 to what they had spent in total ($27), to try and get a number ($30) which they hadn't spent.I'm not sure if that was clear?
Here's an example that may make things clearer.
4 men pay $40. turns out they should have only paid $30. bellboy keeps $6 and returns $4. Therefore each man only paid $9.
$9 x 4 = $36
bellboy has $6.total must be 36 + 6 = $42??
How did $2 appear magically out of thin air?
.....Now here is a real good one...
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? lol
peace
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Peace Truth, David
I was trying to be difficult twisted
Truth stated
say " Irish wristwatch " 3 times as fast as you can.
Irish wristwatch
Irish wisswash
Iris rich rachThat was easy!
David stated
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
4?
Peace,
Tay -
Hello All,
I was asked this riddle when I was a child. I believe I have now have the anwer!
The Dollar simply leaked out of this Universe into 11 dimensational space-time continuum -)
But here is one I would like to put to everyone What is the speed of Dark?
Regards,
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I was being frivolous with my question of speed of dark but on serious note though we find that in scripture that God separated Light from Darkness as if darkness was a separate entity.
As for the question can God create a stone that he can't lift? the answer as have been said is bound upon in the "anthropomorphic" nature of the question itself. But I also think this type of question only arises when we view God as a separate entity that is "out there" in a separate ontological sphere. If God is bound upon with everything that exists then this type of question I think is not relevant but it is by virtue of this types of questioning we come to the Idea of a God that is above all human description and comparisons...
As for the dollar question the seeming paradox lies in the "misdirection" of the orginal question. But its fun in trying to "solve" them.
Regards,
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Can god make 1 + 1 = anything but 2????????
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Can god make 1 + 1 = anything but 2????????
The numbers '1' and '2' exist becuase God created them, and he also created the logic that makes double 1 = 2. He didn't just make physical things, he made logic, emotion...
if he wished he could create logic which would result in 1 + 1 = 3, and there would be nothing wrong with it, we believe that that is the right logic, becuase it is the only logic we can understand, God however creates and understands all logic.
Peace.
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Mathematics cannot be changed. Mathematics just is.
What I'm gettng at, is that I see God as mathematics.
Thus the concept within the pages of the Quran, of finding a balance to your life, is very simly explainable using Mathematics, i.e.......
-1<0<1
Where 0 is the balance.
Let me post some more.
Your hypothesis of making 1+1=3 be correct logic is false.
What you have merely done is change the definition of 3.
You can never make 1 + 1 =3.
It will always equal 2.
You see mathematics is the universal language, mathematics is the TRUTH[/b.
And thus mathematics is the essence of god.
Judgement, balance are all contained within mathematics.
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Peace Esimsek,
You see mathematics is the universal language, mathematics is the TRUTH.
What of things that cannot be calculated, nor even grasped, such as the very existence of memory? The only theory I've heard that begins to express this complexity if the holographic theory, which has little to do with math, but much to do about frequency.
Can falling in love be calculated? How about a person's reaction to trauma?
And thus mathematics is the essence of god.
I would be careful with my wording. Mathematics is but one layer of many, many layers that we call reality.
Judgement, balance are all contained within mathematics.
I fail to see how judgement is calculated. Please provide an example. The Qur'an tells us that the good outweighs the bad. Are you suggesting that God uses a formula to make this decision?
Peace,
Tay