Post any riddles here

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:38 pm

Wrong! I said ADDING not SUBTRACTING!

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:42 pm

Blast!10 wrote:2.If you'll divide 80 by 1/2 and add 10, what will the answer be?

12
PS: I don't think these are actually riddles, aren't these more like better in the Lateral Thinking Topic?

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:28 pm

? The Lateral Thinking Questions topic was in Other Puzzles and Games section and that section got deleted

How is it 12?

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:32 pm

Midnight Synergy moved the Lateral Thinking Topic to this section just before he delted the silly section
It's 12 because 1/2 of 80 is 40 And 80 divided by 40 is 2 (Because 80 divided by 80 is 1, if you divide it with half the number it's 2) And add 10 and it's 12!
Very compilcated!

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:45 pm

Oops, I messed up the dividing, it's 170.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:54 pm

Muzozavr wrote:Oops, I messed up the dividing, it's 170.

But how is it 170?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:59 pm

The 1/2 is representing a number in this riddle.
Dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2, therefore 80 divide by 1/2 will be 160 and adding 10 is 170.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:08 pm

Muzozavr wrote:Dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2

I get your point, But it doesn't exactly work.

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:47 pm

Isn't it 50?

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:09 pm

If you translate it in words it didn't say "divide in half" it said "divide by half".

loof101 · Post by **loof101** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:38 am

Blast!10 wrote:
Toon Dog wrote:
Blast!10 wrote: Which of the letters is the odd one out? Hint: It's related to the lines!
Dalet, it doesn't have any curved lines.
I mean the blue lines above and under the letters.
Answer-Alef because its lines&line ends touch the blue lines 4 times the others' touch it onl;y twice.
Well...
1.Which collection of letters is the odd one out?
> sanip
> aegnldn
> dahnlol
> rasip
2.If you'll divide 80 by 1/2 and add 10, what will the answer be?

1: rasip?
2: Uhhh...

jobec5 · Post by **jobec5** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:16 pm

holding aside the 10 for now:

80 divided by 1/2
= (80/1) divided by (1/2)

multipy each ( ) by 2
2 x 80 divided by 2 x 1/2
= 160 divided by 1
=160

now add your 10

=170

hope this helps

PS That book is a dictionary, where certain things go in a certain order, it is alphabetical.

Becky

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:23 pm

Two last answers were right!
1: rasip. Sanip=Spain - COUNTRY. Aegnldn=England - COUNTRY. Dahnlol=Holland - COUNTRY. Rasip=Paris - CITY

2: 170. NOT 50. dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2, therefore, 80 divided by 1/2 is the same as 80 multiplied by 2, which is 160. 160+10=170.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:28 pm

Blast!10 wrote:dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2

But it just doesn't work that way! 80 divided by 40 is 2, It just doesn't work!

I can't get 80 divided by half to get the same answer as 80 multiplied by 2

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:31 pm

Dividing IN half is dividing by 2.
Dividing BY half is dividing by 1/2 which is in turn multiplying by 2.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:40 pm

This is never gonna work for me.

Gen · Post by **Gen** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:46 pm

Dlcs, try it this way:

1/2 = 0.5

80 divided by 0.5 = 160.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:01 pm

Ah, That made sense! I get it now!

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:34 pm

If you're looking, you can't see me.
If you see me, you can't see anything else.
What am I?

loof101 · Post by **loof101** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:37 pm

darkness is my guess, because you can't see darkness when you're seeing other things, but when you see darkness you can't see other things

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:49 pm

Nope. Like you're looking at the entrance to an open and completely dark room, without a single bit of light, you see the darkness in the room, BUT you can still see the things surrounding the room (which are not in the darkness)

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:51 pm

Is the answer nothing?

Blast!10 · Post by **Blast!10** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:52 pm

NOT!

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:59 pm

Blindness?
EDIT: I'm being a bit morbid here, but it might be heaven/hell.

Lutz · Post by **Lutz** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:30 pm

The inner side of your eyelids

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:32 pm

You cannot see it at all.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:44 pm

I think Lutz is right, when you see your eyelids, you're not actually looking at all, and if you're not looking, that's all you can see.

mqdar · Post by **mqdar** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:47 pm

dlcs18 wrote:
Blast!10 wrote:dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2
But it just doesn't work that way! 80 divided by 40 is 2, It just doesn't work!
I can't get 80 divided by half to get the same answer as 80 multiplied by 2

80 / 1/2 means "How many times can the 1/2 go into the number 80". You need two '1/2' to make one, and 80 / 1 = 80.
So 80 / 1/2 = 80 * 2 = 160 + 10 = 170.

dlcs18 · Post by **dlcs18** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:03 pm

mqdar wrote:
dlcs18 wrote:
Blast!10 wrote:dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2
But it just doesn't work that way! 80 divided by 40 is 2, It just doesn't work!
I can't get 80 divided by half to get the same answer as 80 multiplied by 2
80 / 1/2 means "How many times can the 1/2 go into the number 80". You need two '1/2' to make one, and 80 / 1 = 80.
So 80 / 1/2 = 80 * 2 = 160 + 10 = 170.

I already got it because Gen posted, No-one else told me that it was actually 1/2 on it's own, so I kept thinking it was 1/2 of 80.

John925 · Post by **John925** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:34 pm

This is a topic about riddles! Not pre-algebra!

Post any riddles here

try it as an equation