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lafta
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Ok heres an original riddle, along the lines of airplane on rollerskates

Westgrove apartments is offering apartments for 499/month with 12 month lease, with 1 month free.

So thats 499 for 12 months minus one free month

$499 times 12 = $5988 minus one free month (-$499) = $5489
so the average over the 11 months you pay is $5489 / 11 = $499

what? did they pull a trick with this free $499?

6/1/2009 6:20:38 PM

El Nachó
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It's per night. It says it right there on the box.

6/1/2009 6:22:28 PM

BigMan157
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what the fuck are you going on about now?

6/1/2009 6:22:56 PM

CharlieEFH
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there's no riddle

you get a 12 month lease for 499/month for 11 months

instead of paying for 12 months, you pay only for 11 but still get a 12 month lease

6/1/2009 6:24:20 PM

KeB
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you are making absolutely no sense at all

there is no missing 499

6/1/2009 6:24:39 PM

BJCaudill21
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because it's over 12 months, not 11?

what is that riddle about the 5 guys give 5 dollars and then they get like 4 back and....something

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 6:25 PM. Reason : ~]

6/1/2009 6:24:41 PM

thumper
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Quote :
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$499 times 12 = $5988 minus one free month (-$499) = $5489
so the average over the 11 12 months you pay is $5489 / 11 12 = $499 $457.42"


[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 6:27 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2009 6:26:15 PM

evan
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499 * 11 = 5489

5489 / 12 = 457.42

6/1/2009 6:26:31 PM

Tiberius
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this thread is dumb

6/1/2009 6:26:33 PM

lafta
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no the missing dollar riddle goes like this:

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"Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each pay $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that the guests have been given $1 back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?"

6/1/2009 6:26:45 PM

TenaciousC
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good god, really?

you have to divide $5489 by 12, not 11

you are therefore paying a little over $457 a month

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 6:28 PM. Reason : dude, how did all of you post while I was waiting for my post to go thru? There were only 2 replies!]

6/1/2009 6:27:21 PM

ThePeter
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Quote :
"$499 times 12 = $5988 minus one free month (-$499) = $5489
so the average over the 11 months you pay is $5489 / 11 = $499"


Why yes, that is math.

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 6:32 PM. Reason : ^I dunno, I got like 8 internal server errors]

6/1/2009 6:31:40 PM

Walter
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what a dumbass

6/1/2009 6:49:10 PM

NyM410
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6/1/2009 6:57:28 PM

umbrellaman
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You suck at life basic math. Kill yourself.

6/1/2009 7:02:17 PM

elduderino
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Hahah classic lafta.

6/1/2009 7:41:16 PM

wdprice3
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i lafta so hard

6/1/2009 8:11:43 PM

Chief
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Quote :
"It's per night. It says it right there on the box."


Win

6/1/2009 8:16:10 PM

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Quote :
""Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each pay $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money evenly. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.

Now that the guests have been given $1 back, each has paid $9. Notice that 3 x $9 = $27, and the bellhop has $2. But 2 + 27 = 29. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?""


thats not a riddle unless you went to public school

the bill was $25, the bellhop kept $2, making it $27, and they each got $1 back adding up to $30

or you could say they each paid 9 after it was said and done with for a total of $27 which is the bill pluswhat the bellhop kept

6/1/2009 8:28:01 PM

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