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« on: November 22, 2011, 11:15:23 PM » |
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you see a bike for only £97 but you dont have any money. you borrow £50 each from a couple of mates so you now got £100 You buy the bike and get £3 change You give back a £1 to each of your mates and stick the other in your pocket. So you now owe you mates £49 each which works out to £98 plus the one in your pocket £99 "where did the other £1 go to???" answers on a postcard as I cant work it out 
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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2011, 11:29:47 PM » |
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That's gonna bug me for ages now!
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« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2011, 06:36:00 AM » |
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Hmm missing money...gotta be the taxman! or ebay fees  I know the answer so ner ner ner 
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NO I WON`T. aye ok then, i will
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« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2011, 12:15:44 PM » |
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..........and Joshua entered Jericho on his Triumph..............
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« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2011, 01:41:10 PM » |
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I have seen this one time and time again, And i still can't remember it. 
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« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2011, 02:52:46 PM » |
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..........and Joshua entered Jericho on his Triumph..............
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« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2011, 05:08:36 PM » |
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Hmm missing money...gotta be the taxman! or ebay fees  I know the answer so ner ner ner  more likly be the flaming paypal folk tbone. would have to sell the bike to pay the paypal fees.
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no rush fella, take all the time you need, can i have it in 20 Min's?
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« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2011, 08:19:49 PM » |
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Run the problem in reverse, you borrow £100 off two people. Immediately return £1 to each, you have £98 in your pocket,owing £49 to each of the original guys, pay the £97 asking price for the bike, and you now have the bike, plus £1 change in your pocket.................simples!!......( the bike should have only cost each "loaner" £48.50,of course!)
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« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2011, 09:21:19 PM » |
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somebody's got a brain cell on hear  and it ant me 
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Why do every five minute job take all day, and if it can go wrong it will go wrong
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« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2011, 09:31:54 AM » |
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I got half of one!
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« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2011, 12:02:26 PM » |
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..........and Joshua entered Jericho on his Triumph..............
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« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2011, 03:51:45 PM » |
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Money owed is just that Cab! you cant reduce a debt by pocketing the payments!!!maybe if successive incumbents of that exclusive London club,'The Commons' had remembered this simple adage, we, as a country, would not be in the mire we now find ourselves!! ho, hum...... Morrag
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« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2011, 04:01:50 PM » |
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..........and Joshua entered Jericho on his Triumph..............
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« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2011, 04:21:43 PM » |
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Yeah, right, say no 'moah'......I once had an accountant like that!!!! mind you he's out on licence now!!!.................
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