LIGHT BULBS:
There are three switches downstairs. Each corresponds to one of the three light bulbs in the attic. You can turn the switches on and off and leave them in any position.
How would you identify which switch corresponds to which light bulb, if you are only allowed one trip upstairs?
-- Edited by Ruhig on Saturday 21st of July 2012 02:37:37 AM
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DIOPHANTUS: Diophantus's youth lasted 1/6 of his life. He had his first beard in the next 1/12 of his life. At the end of the following 1/7 of his life Diophantus got married. Five years from then his son was born. His son lived exactly 1/2 of Diophantus's life. Diophantus died 4 years after the death of his son. How long did Diophantus live?
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ROCK/PAPER/SCISSORS: A teacher was having trouble getting her students to learn their facts, but she noticed that her students often played the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors". She made a game with similar rules in order to encourage the students to learn their facts.
The class would be divided into three teams: Rock, Paper and Scissors. The teacher would ask the students a question and the class would raise their hands if they knew the answer. If the first person to answer the question correctly is in the Rock team, he or she would choose one player from the Scissors team to be eliminated. Similarly, if a player from the Scissors team was first to answer the question, then he or she would eliminate a member from the Paper team. Lastly, if a player from the Paper team was first to answer correctly, he or she would eliminate a member from the Rock team.
The teacher would then continue asking questions until only one team still has members. That team would be declared the winner and all its members would win a small chocolate.
However, as soon as she explained the rules to the class, one particularly smart student immediately found a large flaw that made the game unplayable. Can you do the same?
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Pappy's logic ... ... ... Light Bulbs .... you take your phone with you upstairs and have the wife turn switches on/off ... Observe the freakin' lights ...
Diophantus ... ... Who the hell is he ??? and who CARES how old he was when he died ...
I have to be the only person on earth that doesn't know how Rock/Paper/Scissors works ...
LMAO ... Loved Stepchild's post ... although I did understand the answers ... (at least that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it)
-- Edited by Pythonpappy on Saturday 21st of July 2012 07:03:32 PM
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LIGHT BULBS: There are three switches downstairs. Each corresponds to one of the three light bulbs in the attic. You can turn the switches on and off and leave them in any position. How would you identify which switch corresponds to which light bulb, if you are only allowed one trip upstairs?
-- Edited by Ruhig on Saturday 21st of July 2012 02:37:37 AM
I would leave the first switch on for about 3 minutes, and the second switch on for a minute after that, then turn both switches off. When I got up into the attic I would find the warmest of the two bulbs -which is obviously the first switch. The 3rd switch would remain on after that.
-- Edited by Mr_David on Saturday 21st of July 2012 10:48:16 PM
ROCK/PAPER/SCISSORS: A teacher was having trouble getting her students to learn their facts, but she noticed that her students often played the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors". She made a game with similar rules in order to encourage the students to learn their facts.
The class would be divided into three teams: Rock, Paper and Scissors. The teacher would ask the students a question and the class would raise their hands if they knew the answer. If the first person to answer the question correctly is in the Rock team, he or she would choose one player from the Scissors team to be eliminated. Similarly, if a player from the Scissors team was first to answer the question, then he or she would eliminate a member from the Paper team. Lastly, if a player from the Paper team was first to answer correctly, he or she would eliminate a member from the Rock team.
The teacher would then continue asking questions until only one team still has members. That team would be declared the winner and all its members would win a small chocolate.
However, as soon as she explained the rules to the class, one particularly smart student immediately found a large flaw that made the game unplayable. Can you do the same?
Okay, I have one question for you Ruhig: What happens if one team loses all it's members, first? What then???
-- Edited by Mr_David on Saturday 21st of July 2012 11:18:51 PM
"Okay, I have one question for you Ruhig: What happens if one team loses all it's members, first? What then???" -- I feel like you just challenged me on the city streets like "oh yeah? And when I tie you by an ankle to that tree whatcha gonna do then? Huh? Yeah... Thought so" lol--- answers always in profile.
Python- I don't think your an idiot. And I failed algebra in 2004/2005/2006/2007... So yeah, diophAntus and I are practically best friends. Plus, he's the only dead guy who has ever stood in the way of my diploma and associated degree. }%>^*~\#%!**£*+£ algebra
-- Edited by Ruhig on Sunday 22nd of July 2012 03:02:41 AM
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Diophantus, often known as the 'father of algebra', is best known for his Arithmetica, a work on the solution of algebraic equations and on the theory of numbers. However, essentially nothing is known of his life and there has been much debate regarding the date at which he lived.
There are a few limits which can be put on the dates of Diophantus's life. On the one hand Diophantus quotes the definition of a polygonal number from the work of Hypsicles so he must have written this later than 150 BC. On the other hand Theon of Alexandria, the father of Hypatia, quotes one of Diophantus's definitions so this means that Diophantus wrote no later than 350 AD. However this leaves a span of 500 years, so we have not narrowed down Diophantus's dates a great deal by these pieces of information.
Okay, just so we're clear, ... I took Algebra in 1966 ... avg. was B+ ... but right now i'm down to two brain cells ... Add my heart pills, and I have a problem doing the Sunday Sudoku which is a 16X16 grid, which 'pre-heart attack' I could do in a few hours ... now?, ... it takes days ... (pills have side-effects ... one of which is extreme fatigue, which means it's tough to concentrate ... plus some other side-effects that I shouldn't mention)
And good for Diophantus, I bet he was an 'ok' kind a guy ...
Love Ya, Pappy
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DIOPHANTUS: Diophantus's youth lasted 1/6 of his life. He had his first beard in the next 1/12 of his life. At the end of the following 1/7 of his life Diophantus got married. Five years from then his son was born. His son lived exactly 1/2 of Diophantus's life. Diophantus died 4 years after the death of his son. How long did Diophantus live?
Algebra is one of my weaknesses, Ruhig. So I'll leave this one alone. Answer please?
I'm just glad you can look past all that and that you still love Algebra ... It really is just simple logic ...
Hey Stepchild, ... Ruhig lives and thinks in a different 'dimension and time' than we do ... she can't help being young ... we must translate what she says into a language WE understand ... LOL
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Step, if I didn't poke fun at the situation, I'd get all resentful about it. Gotta live & let live, and create fun where we can. After all... I try to find all the different ways I can be the type of person I was trying tone when I was drinking. I thought I was smart and funny and sociable and personable when I was drinking. I want to be that way sober.
Python- i'd liken my lack of mathematical abilities to a defect, in that it's something I'd like to change about me. Why run away from an ant hill when I now have the coping mechanisms to step over it. And yeah, I'm an LCD tv where you are the "rabbit ear" tv... But I don't consider you guys to be obsolete either. You guys help me live life In a different light, and I'll help you to adapt to a world with out pay phones or out houses lmao :)
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Okay Ruhig, now you're hitting below the belt(kidding) ... ... ... I did grow up with 'rabbit ears' on the TV ... and 'tin foil' to improve reception ... and the TV tube was a CRT ... black and white no less ... our neighbors used an 'outhouse' and drew their water from the 'well' next to the house ... It was the sixties before they got 'indoor' plumbing ...
We raised all our own food and canned and froze it ... killed livestock for meat ... cut wood for heat ... ... ... ... "A Country Boy Can Survive" ... LMAO ... ... ... oh, and the pay phones had 'rotary' dials instead of buttons ...
I just got a new cell phone I can understand how to use, you should try it ... ... ... ...
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LIGHT BULBS: There are three switches downstairs. Each corresponds to one of the three light bulbs in the attic. You can turn the switches on and off and leave them in any position. How would you identify which switch corresponds to which light bulb, if you are only allowed one trip upstairs?
-- Edited by Ruhig on Saturday 21st of July 2012 02:37:37 AM
easy, while in the attic, disconnect the lights and connect 3 different sounding signaling devises, such as doorbells.
Okay Dean, you had to do it, didn't you ... ... ...
You know the average door bell is a 24 VAC device ... The light socket however is 110 VAC ... You'd have to go get three socket adapters to allow a plug-in to be used for each doorbell AND you'd have to buy three separate plugs, because the doorbell kits don't come with a wall plug on them ... they come to be 'hard-wired' in the electrical box ... ... ...
It would be easier just to call over 3 drunk friends and have each one of them lick their finger and stick it in the sockets ... then listen to which one yells as you turn on the different switches downstairs ... See ??? ... aren't I bright ???
P.S. Glad to see you back, by the way!!!
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