A lottery win is shared between 3 people. Allan gets 20% more than Jane, and 25% more than Charlie. Jane's share is £3,600. How much does Charlie receive?
And show your workings......
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any advance on £3,456 ?
(3600 x 1.2) x (100/125) =
Last edited by: AnotherJohnH on Mon 27 Sep 10 at 17:59
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>> No.
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Well, my workings might be ugly, but it's numerically correct - BODMAS.
If I hadn't been rushing to beat the "edit", having posted the answer before reading the request for workings, it might have been clearer...
It's still right.
And I like Zero's "workings" :)
Last edited by: AnotherJohnH on Mon 27 Sep 10 at 18:20
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>> A lottery win is shared between 3 people. Allan gets 20% more than Jane, and
>> 25% more than Charlie. Jane's share is £3,600. How much does Charlie receive?
£3456
>> And show your workings......
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100917060002AArjOcO
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A = 1.2xJ = 1.25xC
J = 3600 ; so A = 1.2 x 3600 = 4320
C = A / 1.25 = 4320/1.25 = 3456
Charlie got £3456
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>> A lottery win is shared between 3 people. Allan gets 20% more than Jane, and
>> 25% more than Charlie. Jane's share is £3,600. How much does Charlie receive?
Assuming they all put in the same amount of money each, Jane and Charlie hated Allan, poisoned his coffe and run off with his winnings.
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Why does Bobby care? Does he know Jane?
(And shouldn't it be amongst three people? :-))
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Maybe Allan and Charlie know Bobby as "Jane". It's none of my business of course...It's the 21st century now, one has to accept all manner of things.
:-)
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Charlie gets life..for twin murders.
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The ticket buyer keeps it all and denies that there was ever any agreement to share the winnings!
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So tell us, who arranges a lottery syndicate with a 316 to 380 to 304 proportional split ? Did they really contribute £31.60, £38.00 and £30.40 and buy £100 worth of tickets.
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No-one would arrange it like that. There's something about maths question setters that makes you think they live on another planet.
I well remember a question set to one of the children some years ago by a school textbook - after giving various measurements, 'How long would you take to fill the bath with the plug out?'
You wouldn't.
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Ok, here is a funnier one. You have 17 goats. You need to divide it among A, B & C so that A gets 1/2 (= half) of total goats, B 1/3rd and C 1/9th.
How do you distribute 17 goats without killing anything one?
Last edited by: movilogo on Tue 28 Sep 10 at 09:44
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The answer I've found elsewhere on the net is rubbish.
This forum has one or two tetchy posts about it:
brainden.com/forum/index.php?/topic/11832-how-to-divide-17-goats/
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A gets 8 goats, one of which is pregnant.
B gets 6, C gets 2.
17 current goats, 18 prospective
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>> The answer I've found elsewhere on the net is rubbish.
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>> This forum has one or two tetchy posts about it:
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>> brainden.com/forum/index.php?/topic/11832-how-to-divide-17-goats/
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They assume that the lawyer rode to the farm on a horse. He might have arrived on a Honda Goldwing and scuppered the whole deal.
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You lend them one of your goats for the division (no, I don't know where you get the goat from. Just get one . OK!)
That makes 18 goats.
Give A half, which equals nine goats.
Give B one third which equals six goats.
Give C one ninth which equals two goats.
You have given away seventeen goats and you take back your own goat.
Result everyone happy.
Question. Are you doing all this for nothing?
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As will be obvious now, this was a question in my son's homework and don't worry - he had put down that he couldn't complete it , I was just searching for the right answer.
I just couldn't get my head round it, in my defence I was suffering from a hangover and tv football overload!!
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I'd call it a simple arithmetic question, rather than a maths question.
;-)
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... but a Biology answer?
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I went off maths when I discovered that most people have more than the average number of legs.
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Jane has £3600
Allan has 20% more therefore £3600 + 20% = £4320.
Allan has 25% more than Charlie therefore £4320 = 125% of Charlies amount
£4320 divided by 125 and multiplied by 100 = £3456 is Charlies to spend -
Seemples....
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OK.
Three brickies decide its a bit quiet on site and decide to buy a radio.
They chip in £5 a piece and send the labourer to buy one. That's £15.
He nips into Jewsons and spots one for £10. (Don't know if they sell radios but hey)
He decides he can make a little out of this so pockets £2.
He goes back to the site with the radio and gives them back a £1 a piece.
So they have paid £4 each.
3 X £4 = £12 + £2 in the labourer's pocket = £14
Where has the other £1 gone?????
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Its not missing. He kept three quid, not two. (the extra quid from the 3x£4)
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OK - So let's assume he had the money in the form of 15 £1 coins
He hands over 10 coins for the radio
He pockets 2 coins and gives each brickie a £1 coin back
Sum of above £15
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Total waste of money. On MY jobs all Radios get turned off or broken. Seriously B R O K E N. Can't stand the ruddy row, inane banter (sh ite) and all that) Innit.
M
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>> Where has the other £1 gone?????
Out of the original £15, Jewsons get £10, the brickies get £1 each (= £3 total) and the labourer gets £2.
What "other £1" are you talking about?
Last edited by: L'escargot on Wed 29 Sep 10 at 08:06
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Old Arab with 3 sons dies, he wants to leave 1/2 to eldest son, 1/3 to middle son, 1/9 to youngest.
All he had was 17 camels but this gave a problem! 1/2 of 17, 1/3rd of 17, 1/9th of 17!!
Along comes an uncle to help, he lends them a camel to make 18.
Eldest gets 1/2 of 18 = 9
Middle gets 1/3 of 18 = 6
Youngest 1/9 0f 18 = 2
Total 17
Uncle takes the 18th camel home.
??????? how does this work?????
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>> Uncle takes the 18th camel home.
>>> ??????? how does this work?????
It doesn't because the "will" doesn't add up to 1.
1/2 (9/18th) + 1/3 (6/18) + 1/9 (2/18) = 17/18th.
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It's a famous example of the consequence of trying to bamboozle people by adding up the wrong figures.
You might as well add up the 12 plus 2 plus 10 and get 24, and ask where has the extra 9 come from? Playing around incorrectly with some of the numbers doesn't mean anything.
L'e has it right.
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">> Where has the other £1 gone?????
Out of the original £15, Jewsons get £10, the brickies get £1 each (= £3 total) and the labourer gets £2.
What "other £1" are you talking about?"
You seem to have it cracked.
Its something to do with working two sets of figures at the same time. Keeps some people amused though :-)
Last edited by: Fullchat on Wed 29 Sep 10 at 20:18
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...Keeps some people amused though...
Quite so, bit of stuff and nonsense.
Doesn't bear over-analysing.
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Maths question - AnotherJohnH
