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When numbers don't add up...  

hotfun_1966 57M
247 posts
5/24/2019 7:11 am
When numbers don't add up...

Hello friends, it's been a while since I've done a new blog post. Life is what happens to you while you make other plans, and I've had a few figurative wars to wage offline.

Today's entry:

Our local ad flyer with trivia and quiz questions recently posted a quiz with an incorrect answer.

Q: A man is hired to paint office numbers from one to one hundred in a building. How many times will he paint the number nine?

A: (incorrect) Nineteen, one each in each group of ten from 1 to 89 and ten in the nineties.

Those of you adept at math can already see that they are one off. The correct answer is twenty, because ninety-nine has an extra nine.

Actually, there is another possible correct answer: forty. This happens if the painter uses the same stencil template for six and nine, so he paints twenty nines upside down as well.

hotfun_1966 57M
3677 posts
5/24/2019 7:13 am

 Learn basic arithmetic.


Oldmanaz2 65M

5/24/2019 8:18 am

 Good brain teaser. Yes I got it right. Lol.


hotfun_1966 57M
3677 posts
5/26/2019 1:31 am
    Quoting Oldmanaz2:
    Good brain teaser. Yes I got it right. Lol.
Thanks, glad you liked it.


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