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Graham_Devon wrote: »Your still totalling £29.
They handed over £30.
You silly boy.
I'm not totalling £29 pound, that's your mistake.
Your adding £2 to the £27 instead of subtracting from it.:wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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One last attempt.
£30 was handed over
Deduct £3 as it was handed back to the friends
Deduct £25 placed in the shop's till
Deduct £2 pocketed by the owner
THERE IS NO MISSING POUND
Each friend paid £9, not £8.33333.:wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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IveSeenTheLight wrote: »I'm not totalling £29 pound, that's your mistake.
Your adding £2 to the £27 instead of subtracting from it.
Why would I subtract it from it? Collosal error.
Shall I explain it in marbles for you!?
3 lads have 10 marbles each.
They put their 10 marbles into a pot, equalling 30 marbles.
They go into a shop and exchange the 30 marbles for a gun.
The shopkeeper realises he has overcharged them, as the gun only cost 25 marbles.
The shopkeeper is holding 5 of their marbles (hehe).
He decides to keep 2 marbles, and run after them to hand them 3 marbles back.
The lads now have 3 marbles, 1 marble each.
So, the shopkeeper took 25 marbles for the gun, and kept 2 marbles because he's a cheeky beggar. Thats 27 marbles. He then gave the 3 marbles back to the lads, who split them equally and take 1 marble each.
How you pay £8.333333 for something is not in the least relevant. But that's what they paid. It's not for me to explain it. It's for you to figure it out.0 -
Anyway Hamish, apologies for ruining an excellent thread.
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The easiest way to explain this is to say
- the gun cost 25
- the cashier kept 2
- 3 was returned
Total = 30
The cost of the gun was 25 so each person technically contributed 8.33 which was graham's point plus they each got a pound back.
You were both saying the same thing on your original answers then you over-scrutinized it.0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »How you pay £8.333333 for something is not in the least relevant. But that's what they paid. It's not for me to explain it. It's for you to figure it out.
They didn't pay £8.3333 they paid £9 with the shop effectively taking 92.592592%(recurring) and the owner taking 7.407407% (recurring)
Answer this
If they paid £8.33333 and they have £1 in their pocket, why dor £8.3333 + £1 = £10 (clue = they paid more than £8.3333):wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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IveSeenTheLight wrote: »They didn't pay £8.3333 they paid £9 with the shop effectively taking 92.592592%(recurring) and the owner taking 7.407407% (recurring)
Answer this
If they paid £8.33333 and they have £1 in their pocket, why dor £8.3333 + £1 = £10 (clue = they paid more than £8.3333)
One more time...
They paid 8.33 each for the gun plus they each contirubted 0.66 to the thief which = 9 each.
Realize how you were both saying the same thing yet?0 -
The cost of the gun was 25 so each person technically contributed 8.33 which was graham's point plus they each got a pound back.
This is why people get errors with this teezer
£8.33 + £1 does not equal £10, hence the quiz where the money went to.
The friends clearly paid £9 to the shop owner.
It cost the friends £27 for the gun, not £25.
The shop owner simply chose to put £25 through the till and pocket the remaining £2
If the friends paid £8.33 each and have £1 in their pocket, where has their £0.67 pence each gone to?
Further more 3 x £0.67 = £2.01, so where did the additional penny come from?
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What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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One more time...
They paid 8.33 each for the gun plus they each contirubted 0.66 to the thief which = 9 each.
Realize how you were both saying the same thing yet?
Ok,
£8.33 + £0.66 = £8.99.
Where did the penny go? :wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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