August Competitions

[nimkekaa]

I have a brain teaser book. So here is one.

Find the Error

A coffee company made a survey of the number of people who drink tea and coffee. An investigatior handed in the following report to the president of the company.

Number of people interviewed..............................100
Number of people who drink coffee.......................78
Number of people who drink tea............................71
Number of people who drink both coffee and tea.....48
Number of peopl who drink neither tea or coffee.....0

When the president read the report, he noticed a mistake and fired the interviewer. What was the error?

 

[nimkekaa]

ground
feet
feet
feet
feet
feet
feet

is 6 feet underground


try this one



ieieieceieiei


?

 

[nimkekaa]

One more .... I LOVE brain teasers.

Try your luck at this `trickle-down`puzzle. Starting at the top, change one letter of each succedding word to arrive at the word at the bottom.

Took
----
----
----
Burn

good luck!

 

[catjudo]

Took
Book
Boon
Born
Burn

 

[catjudo]

ieieieceieiei

I before E, except after C

 

[reallydown]

Alright so here's one for you. A father and sonn are in a terrible car accident. The father dies in the car crash, but the son is raced into the emergency room. As he swings past the emergency room gates the surgeon gets a glimps at him and cries out "my son". Who is the surgeon?

The mum, of course.

 

[reallydown]

I have a brain teaser book. So here is one.

Find the Error

A coffee company made a survey of the number of people who drink tea and coffee. An investigatior handed in the following report to the president of the company.

Number of people interviewed..............................100
Number of people who drink coffee.......................78
Number of people who drink tea............................71
Number of people who drink both coffee and tea.....48
Number of peopl who drink neither tea or coffee.....0

When the president read the report, he noticed a mistake and fired the interviewer. What was the error?

"peopl"

 

[nimkekaa]

the incorrect spelling of people was a typo error on my part not the answer. Sorry about that. Hint it has to do with the math.

 

[catjudo]

It's bad math. The numbers don't add up. If only 100 people were interviewed then there can't be the break down that is given...that's 197 people.

 

[Nicolette]

I think it has something to do with the people who drink coffee and tea.

• of the 78 people who drink coffee, 48 also drink tea - leaving 30 only coffee drinkers
• of the 71 people who drink tea, 48 also drink coffee - leaving 23 only tea drinkers
• so if you add 48 coffee and tea drinkers, 30 coffee only drinkers and 23 tea only drinkers you get 101 people but there were only 100 participants.

 

[Nicolette]

Have we not got the right answer yet nimkekaa?

 

[Whitneys story]

Have we not got the right answer yet nimkekaa?

I just have to say you are the sweetest most intelligent shower cap wearer ever!