Riddles

[Ethanadams]

This is a hard riddle rep if you figure it out

You have been given the task of transporting 3,000 apples 1,000 miles from Appleland to Bananaville. Your truck can carry 1,000 apples at a time. Every time you travel a mile towards Bananaville you must pay a tax of 1 apple but you pay nothing when going in the other direction (towards Appleland).

What is highest number of apples you can get to Bananaville?

[Starwhip]

I don't know, but 3 guesses:

-Zero

-3,000 driving backwards

-3,000 carrying them. Provided the tax applies to the truck.

I may be bending the scenario a bit...

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3000 if the taxes are being paid to bananaville.

If not, then you can get 833 Apples to Bananaville.

I won't tell anyone how unless you want me to explain it. It actually is pretty easy, only took a couple of minutes to figure out.

Now I have one for you.

You have been ordered to plant 10 trees in 5 rows of 4, how do you do it?

Edited February 20, 2015 by [email protected]

[Elthy]

My guess is 833 apples are remaining:

You drive the first 334 miles starting with 1000 apples in each load, you will have 1998 apples remaining at 334miles. Now you can conntinue with only 2 loads (both 999 apples) until mile 833, there you will have 1000 apples remaining you can load on your truck at once, you drive the remaining 167miles and you have 833 remaining (if i havent misscalulated anything).

Kinda reminds me to the rocket equation, if the distance gets a bit longer you will need much more apples to start with...

[Ethanadams]

The answer has been found

Answer: 833 apples.

Step one: First you want to make 3 trips of 1,000 apples 333 miles. You will be left with 2,001 apples and 667 miles to go.

Step two: Next you want to take 2 trips of 1,000 apples 500 miles. You will be left with 1,000 apples and 167 miles to go (you have to leave an apple behind).

Step three: Finally, you travel the last 167 miles with one load of 1,000 apples and are left with 833 apples in Bananaville.

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the answer to the tree riddle would be plant the tree in every other spot

Edited February 20, 2015 by Ethanadams

[Ethanadams]

New riddle this one is a little easier

Question: Is an older one-hundred dollar bill worth more than a newer one?

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the answer to the tree riddle would be plant the tree in every other spot

Incorrect!

You can only plant ten trees, you must make 5 rows, each with 4 trees in them. No blank or open spots.

[Thomas988]

New riddle this one is a little easier

Question: Is an older one-hundred dollar bill worth more than a newer one?

Technically, no. But I'm bad at riddles, so...

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New riddle this one is a little easier

Question: Is an older one-hundred dollar bill worth more than a newer one?

Hmm, it was in regards to the time of printing due to inflation.

[Ethanadams]

Currency change has nothing to do with it

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I'm taking this riddle is a bit more abstract and has nothing to do with math or geometry?

[Ethanadams]

I has to do with wording

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Hahaha ok I got it. I kind of feel stupid for not seeing that immediately.

It is worth more by $99.

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[Ethanadams]

Do you know the answer or a hint to the tree one?

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Here's a hard one from plato

Question: There is a story that a man and not a man

Saw and did not see a bird and not a bird

Perched on a branch and not a branch

And hit him and did not hit him with a rock and not a rock.

[How is this possible?]

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I know the answer, I'll give you a hint. This one can be pretty difficult.

Think about this, You can only plant 10 trees, you need 4 rows of 5, therefore each tree must be in at least 2 rows. This problem is more geometric than it is mathematical.

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Also, what are the spoiler tags on this forum?

[Ethanadams]

Plant them halfway between the rows?

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Do you know the answer or a hint to the tree one?

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Here's a hard one from plato

Question: There is a story that a man and not a man

Saw and did not see a bird and not a bird

Perched on a branch and not a branch

And hit him and did not hit him with a rock and not a rock.

[How is this possible?]

A man and his dog

The man saw a bird but not the cat, the dog the cat but not the bird

perched on a branch and a cat on a rock

the man hit the bird with a rock and the dog bit the cat.

?? lol

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Plant them halfway between the rows?

Nope. The trees themselves form the rows. No halfways, no open spots. You must have 5 rows, each with 4 trees, using exactly 10 trees.

Let me know if you give up.

I'll give you another hint, this is not the answer btw, just a hint. Imagine planting 4 rows of 2 trees with only 4 trees, how could one accomplish this? Why by planting each of the trees at the corners of the square.

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Wait...I think I got it...

The Man and the bird

The man saw the bird, the bird did not see the man

The bird was perched on a branch but the man was not

The man hit the bird with a rock and bird did not hit the man with a rock?

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[Ethanadams]

Nope

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Oooooooh plant the trees around the borders?

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I'll admit this one is pretty hard and almost impossible to figure out.

Its a star. A five pointed star. With a tree planted at the tips, and at each of the intersections.

[Ethanadams]

How does that work.?

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Question: A natural state, I'm sought by all.

Go without me, and you shall fall.

You do me when you spend,

and use me when you eat to no end.

What am I?

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Without lifting your pencil draw a typical five pointed star. Then at each point of the star fill in a small circle (tree), and at each intersection as well. You will have 5 rows, each with 4 dots. This was a problem from a physics teacher in a puzzles games and problems class I took a couple years ago. It took me forever to solve it, thats why I still remember it.

[Ethanadams]

Answer my other riddles now

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I actually have to work a bit now, I will as soon as I get some time!

Also I will post another one for you.

[Ethanadams]

okay see you later

[Thomas988]

Question: A natural state, I'm sought by all.

Go without me, and you shall fall.

You do me when you spend,

and use me when you eat to no end.

What am I?

...water? I dunno.