Two truth-telling mathematicians--called Alejandra and Baltasar--ride in a bus.  The following conversation is overheard:\n\nA: The product of the ages of my kids is my own age, and the sum of their ages is the number of this bus.\n\nB: Hm.  Perhaps if you told me what your age is and how many children you have, I could logically infer the ages of your kids?\n\nA: No, I'm afraid that wouldn't be possible.\n\nB: Now I know your age.\n\nAssume that the ages of Alejandra's kids are all integer numbers (and that, of course, Alejandra has at least one kid).  \n\nQuestion: What was the number of the bus?
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Let’s call a positive integer ambiguous if there are two different partitions of equal\nsize of it into summands whose products are the same. For example, 14 is ambiguous because\n14 = 3+3+8 = 2+6+6 and 3 · 3 · 8 = 2 · 6 · 6 = 72. A number is called doubly ambiguous if\nthere are two pairs of partitions each of which has the same product, and these two products\nare different. For example, 13 is doubly ambiguous since 13 = 1 + 6 + 6 = 2 + 2 + 9 and\n1 · 6 · 6 = 2 · 2 · 9 = 36 and at the same time 13 = 1 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 4 = 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 6 and\n1 · 1 · 3 · 4 · 4 = 1 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 6 = 48. Now the first mathematicians response to the second mathematicianss\ncomment is equivalent to ‘the bus number is ambiguous’. Note that if n is ambiguous, then so\nis n + 1 and if n is doubly ambiguous, then n + 1 is also doubly ambiguous. An examination\nof all partitions of 11 shows that 11 is not ambiguous. Thus every integer n at least 12 is\nambiguous, and every integer bigger than or equal to 13 is doubly ambiguous. The second\nmathematician’s comment that he knew the age of the first mathematician implies that the bus number is not\ndoubly ambiguous. Thus the bus number must be 12.
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In the experiment of choosing a committee of 6 from a group of 8 women and 7 men,\n\nTotal no. of possible choices \n= no. of ways in which the 6 members of the committee can be chosen from the total 15\n==> n = C(15,6)\n==> n = 15*14*13*12*11*10/6*5*4*3*2*1\n==> n = 7*13*11*5\n==> n = 5005\n\nLet "A" be the event of choosing the committee with 3 women and 3 men\n\nFor Event "A"\n\n---------- Men----Women---Total\nAvailable---8-------7------15\nTo Choose---3-------3-------6\nChoices----C(8,3)-C(7,3)--C(15,6)\n\nNo. of favorable choices\n= (no. of ways in which the 3 men can be chosen from the total 8) * (no. of ways in which the 3 wommen can be chosen from the total 7) \n==> m(a) = C(8,3) * C(7,3)\n==> m(a) = 8*7*6/3*2*1 * 7*6*5/3*2*1\n==> m(a) = 8*7 * 7*5\n==> m(a) = 1960\n\nProbabilty of choosing the committe with 3 women and 3 men \n==> Probability of occurance of event "A" = m(a)/n\n==> P(A) = 1960/5005\n==> P(A) = 392/1001\n\n\nhttp://www.futureaccountant.com/probability/study-notes/\n\nhttp://www.schoolingkids.com/
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Two medical students were walking along the street when they saw an old man walking with his legs spread apart.\n \nOne of the students said to his friend, "I'm sure he has Petry Syndrome.  Those people walk just like that."\n \nThe other student says, "No, I don't think so.  The old man surely has Zovitzki Syndrome.  He walks just as we learned in class."\n\n \nSince they couldn't agree, they decided to ask the old man.\n \nThey approached him, and one of the students said to him,  "We're medical students and couldn't help but notice the way you walk, but we couldn't agree on the syndrome you might have.  Could you tell us what it is?"\n\n \nThe old man said, "Well, you are fortunate.  I'm a retired physician.  I'll tell you, but first you must tell me what you think."\n\n \nOne of the students said, "I think it's Petry Syndrome."\n\n \nThe old man said, "You thought.......... but you are wrong."\n\n \nThe other student said, "I think you have Zovitzki Syndrome."\n\n \nThe old man said, "You thought.......... but you are wrong."\n\n \nSo they asked him, "Well, what do you have?"\n\n \nThe old man said, "I thought it was gas........... but I was wrong.
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Once upon a time a girl asked a guy, "Will you marry me?" And the guy said "NO!" the girl lived happily ever after and she went shopping and dancing and never had to cook, never had a dirty house and she never had a headache. \nTHE END\nNote to self:\n1)Girl talked to guy. 2)Girl asked guy a question. 3)Guy answered. 4)Girl lives her life happily. 5)Girl goes shopping. 6)Girl goes dancing. 7)Girl never has to cook. \n8)Girl never has a dirty house. 9)Girl NEVER has a headache. 10)I'm a single girl.
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Ok, this is where MATH comes in. It's called variables. Youneed to plug in NAMES. A is your signifigant other B is their Ex. using this formula I was able to understand the question. Now, understanding the question, I can answer it! (aren't I smart? LOL!) Well, I'd have to get the whole story. It would REALLY upset be because I'd really care for A, obviously. So after A told me the whole story, then I would be able to apologize. Since B was already out of the picture it wouldnt' be an issue. I would warn A that he probably shouldn't be talking to B anymore but that any other B's that he knew, that I should be with him so they didnt' get any ideas.
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Funny. I heard one today too-\n\nTwo kids were fishing in a stream. W was crossing over on a bridge, when he tripped, hit his head, and fell into the water unconscious.\n\nThe kids pulled him out, and when he came to, he thanked them profusely for saving his life. He told them he would grant each of them one wish. \n\nThe first kid wanted to go to Disney, and W agreed to take him himself in the Air Force One.\n\nThe second kid asked for an electronic wheelchair, equipped with a DVD player, MP3, and Playstation.\n\n"What for?" W asked. "You aren't crippled."\n\n"Yeah, well I will be when I go home and tell my daddy I saved your dumb *ss from drowning," he answered.\n\nSurprise, surprise, the one Neocon I work with didn't find this funny.
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Caution:  I go from 0 to Bi*ch in 3.5 seconds.\n\nWhy does the blonde keep failing her driver's test?  B/c everytime the car stops, she jumps in the backseat!\n\nWe'll get along fine as long as you realize I'm God.\n\nMy bulldog's cuter than you!!\n\nWitches Do It in Circles!\n\nMy Karma ran over your Dogma.\n\nTree Hugging Dirt Worshipper.
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Ha Ha Ha ....He was too innocent to understand what  69 is, but the girl could have explained him that the 2 incidences were just coincidental / accidental -----he need not face another 67 shots for that matter !!! Ha Ha Ha .....too funny....I liked it !!! LOL !
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Seems like a pretty interesting riddle. I am so sorry that it didn't get the response it deserved. I think you should have placed it in the "Jokes and Riddles" sub-category under the category "Entertainment & Music". It would have garnered an immense response there.\n\nAnyways, let me try here-\n4 is golden,eh? I think here 4 somehow refers to "silence"\nNow, 5 is silence. Ummm.... what should be 5? I give up.\n\nGood Riddle. Try posting it in the "Jokes & Riddles" category.
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How many of the bus drivers enjoy driving a bus and feel they are overworked but do not feel they are underpaid?\n\n"12 enjoy driving a bus and feel that they are overworked", so (c)\n\n\nHow many of the bus drivers do not enjoy driving a bus?\nThe sum of all of the answers is more than 130.  Only 1 combination of numbers gives a sum of 130: 62, 43, 13 and 12\nThat means that those 4 answers classify everyone, but the other 3 answers are clarification on another answer.\nSo, out of the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th answers, 43 bus drivers do not enjoy their job, so (e).
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^ That isn't the only link one could find to this riddle.\n\nWhy has it been posted like 25 times in the last week?\n\nOk I previously stated that I felt the best answer was "pressure" but I am retracting that.\n\nIf you look at the riddle, the only part that actually states a question is the last line which reads "Can you guess the riddle?"  I would bet that Kindergarten students would just be like "ha... no!" while Harvard students would be driven nuts.\n\n And well, NO is the correct answer.  \n\nSo what is the rest of the riddle there for?  Well probably because its a riddle and that is the superfluous information.
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I'm assuming the quote is meant to be a joke, but actually, it would be very surprising to find out that 50% of children are of below average intelligence. This would imply that the arithmetic mean of children's intelligence was identically equal to the median, an unusual observation.
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A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.  \n\n\nIf a priest is called a white collar worker, then a nun would be a creature of habit.\n\n\nThe riot at Macy's was called a shopping maul.\n\n\nUsing deodorant is no sweat.\n\n\nI wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.  \n\n \nPolice were called to a daycare where a two-year-old was resisting a rest.   \n\n\nDid you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.   \n\n\nHe drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.   \n\n\nWhat did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing - but it let out a little whine.
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Two gay men decide to have a baby. They mix their sperm together, and then have a surrogate mother artificially inseminated.\n\n    When the baby is born, they rush to the hospital. \n\n    A dozen babies are in the ward, eleven of whom are crying and  screaming. Over in the corner, one baby is smiling serenely. \n\n    A nurse comes by, and to the delight of the two gays she points out the happy child as theirs.\n\n    "Isn't it wonderful?" one gay says to the other.   "All these unhappy babies... and yet our baby is so happy. This  just  proves our love for one another." \n\n    The nurse says, "Oh sure, he's happy now. But just watch what happens when we pull the pacifier out of his  a$$."
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A babysitter came over one day to babysit 10 children. She decided to give them a snack. In a jar there were 10 cookies. She wants to give each one a cookie, but still keep one in the jar. How will she do it? (WITHOUT BREAKING ANY COOKIES-EACH CHILD HAS TO GET A WHOLE!)
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i read this from another post of the same question..and i think hes right...the answer is no. it is the answer to the last question "can you guess the riddle?" obviously a kindergartener would know any of the other stuff, but a harvard grad would actually try and figure out if there is an answer.
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To daredevil pup:  of course that's not God.  That's the EYE of God.  Actually, the sixth eye of God, I guess.\n\nMr. Eye of God:  I can't speak for others, but I forsake your Son for a very good reason:  it was his turn to buy at the pub over the weekend and he "forgot" his wallet.  Something about not having any pockets in his white robe where he could put a wallet.  Frankly, I'm just a little sick of that excuse!