Thursday, July 19, 2007

Puzzle 1: The $21 question

Mike and Todd have $21 between them. Mike has $20 more than Todd. How much does each have (you can't use fractions in the answer)?

4 comments:

jeerjeerak said...

20 and 1?

A Fly on the Wall said...

20 is only 19 more than 1!!! hellooooo!!!

styx said...

x+y=21
x=y+20

Linear Algebra tells us that
x=20.5
y=0.5

and I won't change it to cents! as Gelareh suggests... I think the don't use fractions is just a tricky question, I protest!! :-P

Anonymous said...

But does the "cents" constitute a fraction of a dollar....I got the same answer but I assumed it was wrong because it wasn't whole dollar values...