My eldest cousin always forwards me text messages, sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're not and mostly they're riddles like the one I got today. Usually I can figure them out but today I'm not having much luck. Even the sizzling brain power of Abz couldn't help me so I'm posting it here.
>> Two men and a woman were stuck in a lift during a heatwave. 1 of the men had 3 bottles of water with him and the other had 5. They shared the eight bottles of water equally between the 3 of them. Once they had been freed, the woman gave the men £8 as payment. What is the fairest method of dividing the money.
Now I'm thinking why the hell did the woman have to be such a b1tch and give the men £8 ... cos knowing the riddle but not the answer will get me thinking at odd hours of the night (when I could be using that valuable time to think of something else).
You wouldn't know the answer by any chance would you?
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This is from a famous anecdote (dunno authentic or not) about Hazrat Ali (RA).
Using the logic from that here, each person consumed 8/3= 2 and 2/3rd of a bottle. That means that the person with 3 bottles consumed 2 2/3rd of his own... and only shared 1/3 with the woman. The woman also consumed 8/3 of the total of which only 1/3 came from this man. The rest 7/3 came from the other.
Man with 5 bottles gets 7 quid. The other gets 1.
Just on a side note, if they were REAL men, they woulda given her all 8 bottles...AND not taken the money.
Guys nowadays have no chivalry left, I swear.
n i swear that everytime i hav tried chivalry i m either accused of being rude, sexist.. or even chauvinist...
but to be fair... if they were real men... what is that supposed to mean... :S !!!
is that what real men means these days... ???
wow speccie, your calculations are done with such ease they kinda threw me for a bit.
but anyway *round of applause for the specster*
yay!
Specs, I think you're going to be my first point of contact for any future unsolvable riddles. Thank you, thank you ...
(btw I had to read it a few times to get my head round it, fantastic logic!)
im surprised you got it even after reading it a few times!
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Bee, whatdya mean? (oh i emailed ya but it bounced)