This was a third grade question, are you smarter than a third grader?
I went to the market and spent half of what I had then spent $10 more, then I went to the hardware and spent half of what I had and $10 more and was broke.
How much did I have to start with?
I know most of you will answer this, but if you can put down how long it took you to come up with the answer and no cheating please.....
You need to put down how long it took you to get the answer, ok.
3 Answers
You were impatient, Randy!!!
I came up with $60 also, without looking at what (D)umbriel wrote, by working backwards. Spending $10 when you had already spent half of what you had means you had $20. You spent $10 before you had the $20, which means you had $30 after you spent half of what you had.
I like the 8+8 question, and I'll guess on the = ll --X = and say the answer is Xll. (I'm using Roman numerals, so ll is 2, and - - X is +10. 10 + 2 = 12, in Roman numerals: Xll. Not sure why the = is at the front of your equation, though
10 years ago. Rating: 0 | |
I know the answer to this, so I,ll leave the "challenge" up to the rest.