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Title: it's a riddle..
Post by: VR6_Wherry on 15 March 2012, 13:42
You see a bargain in a shop for £97 but don’t have the money to buy it so you borrow £50
from one friend and £50 from another. (£50 + £50 = £100) You get £3 change, you give £1
to one friend and £1 to the other and keep a £1 yourself. This means that you now owe
each of your friends £49 but hang on... ( £49 + £49 = £98 ) plus the £1 you kept = £99..
Where is the missing pound?
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: cullygti on 15 March 2012, 13:44
in the till of the shop  :grin:along with the other 96 of them  :laugh:
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: haf1zur on 15 March 2012, 14:03
the missing pound is the pound you kept

there is no missing pound

49 +49 = 98 plus the two pounds you gave them already = 100
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 15 March 2012, 14:47
You see a bargain in a shop for £97 but don’t have the money to buy it so you borrow £50
from one friend and £50 from another. (£50 + £50 = £100) You get £3 change, you give £1
to one friend and £1 to the other and keep a £1 yourself. This means that you now owe
each of your friends £49 but hang on... ( £49 + £49 = £98 ) plus the £1 you kept = £99..
Where is the missing pound?

You don't work for LLoyds TSB by any chance?

 :grin:
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: bunj on 15 March 2012, 14:47
£49 + £49 = £98 -£1 you kept = £97 + the £3 change you got = £100
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: VR6_Wherry on 15 March 2012, 14:56
You see a bargain in a shop for £97 but don’t have the money to buy it so you borrow £50
from one friend and £50 from another. (£50 + £50 = £100) You get £3 change, you give £1
to one friend and £1 to the other and keep a £1 yourself. This means that you now owe
each of your friends £49 but hang on... ( £49 + £49 = £98 ) plus the £1 you kept = £99..
Where is the missing pound?

You don't work for LLoyds TSB by any chance?

 :grin:

 :grin:

Not had these posts for ages, wanted to see if people still used their brains :evil: :grin:
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: Guy on 15 March 2012, 15:32
£49 + £49 = £98 -£1 you kept = £97 + the £3 change you got = £100

easiest way to put it
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: RandomJord on 15 March 2012, 15:42
Eleven
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: Dan_GTi8v on 15 March 2012, 22:44
there is no spoon
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: bob23 on 15 March 2012, 23:00
No, the answer is definitely 42.

Dan, sorry but there is a spoon!
(http://www.smoothharold.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/spoon.jpg)
Title: Re: it's a riddle..
Post by: MK3GTI_16Valve on 16 March 2012, 19:51
Biscuits