Brain Teaser

[Root beer]

My cousin sent me a text with this brain teaser and asked me to solve it:

You saw a shirt for $97. You didn't have the cash, so you borrowed $50 each from your mom and dad. $50+$50=$100

You bought the shirt, and had $3 change. You gave your mom and your dad $1 back each. You kept the other $1 for yourself. You now owe your parents $49 each. $49+$49=98+your $1=99

What happen to the other $1?

That was the question. I explained it in accounting terms that since there is only $98 left on the liability side, you can never arrive back to the original $100 since you paid $2, and the math formula above is just a wrong way to go about it. If you write out the entire thing in accounting language, it balances, but you think about it as explained above, nope. Anyone else got a better explanation?  

[jbsoonerfan]

You can't count the dollar you gave yourself because it should have went to one of them because you didn't put any money in originally. Mom gets $2 Dad gets $1. So now you owe Mom $48 and Dad $49. $48 + $49 = $97 plus the $3 you already gave back = $100

[Nitrofreak]

Thats Just like you kids, you borrow money from your parents and still find a way to cheat them out of a buck or two lol !!!

[Jigfishn10]

Thats Just like you kids, you borrow money from your parents and still find a way to cheat them out of a buck or two lol !!!

I've said it once, Nitro, and I'll say it again...YOU ARE A FREAK!

[Bankbeater]

Easy, give all three dollars back to mom.  Mom probably gave the original $50 to Dad in the first place.

[Fishing Rhino]

It's a trick formula.  What is owed to each parent plus the dollar has no relation to the total of 100.

 

The shirt was 97 dollars plus one dollar each to mom and dad equals 99 dollars.  Add the dollar kept for yourself equals the hundred.

 

Lets say the shirt was 95 dollars.  You give your parents each one dollar.  Now you owe them a total of 98 dollars.  But, now you have three dollars in hand.  3 + 98 = 101.  Where did the extra dollar come from?

 

It's 97 dollars plus one for you, plus one for dad, plus one for mom.  That equals 100.

 

In the second scenario the shirt is 95 plus one dollar for mom, another for dad, plus the three you kept equals 100.

[Root beer]

It's a trick formula.  What is owed to each parent plus the dollar has no relation to the total of 100.

 

The shirt was 97 dollars plus one dollar each to mom and dad equals 99 dollars.  Add the dollar kept for yourself equals the hundred.

 

Lets say the shirt was 95 dollars.  You give your parents each one dollar.  Now you owe them a total of 98 dollars.  But, now you have three dollars in hand.  3 + 98 = 101.  Where did the extra dollar come from?

 

It's 97 dollars plus one for you, plus one for dad, plus one for mom.  That equals 100.

 

In the second scenario the shirt is 95 plus one dollar for mom, another for dad, plus the three you kept equals 100.

 

Lol, love the hypothetical about the shirt being $95.

[slonezp]

You need to take back the $2 you paid back and borrow an additional $3 from each of them to cover the sales tax.

[Hanover_Yakker]

You need to stop and turn around and leave the store.  $97 for a shirt is insane!!!!  What stores are you shopping in big money?  LOL.

[Root beer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0aPKvNI9ek 

[Snakehead Whisperer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0aPKvNI9ek 

Classic.

[00 mod]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0aPKvNI9ek 

 

 

I had bever seen that before but man is that great!!!

 

Jeff

[Tuckahoe Joe]

You need to stop and turn around and leave the store.  $97 for a shirt is insane!!!!  What stores are you shopping in big money?  LOL.

X's 2.  I was thinking the same thing.  For 97 bucks I could hit the WalMart and get like 4 pairs of jeans, 5 or 6 shirts and still have 20 dollars left to burn in the fishing section.