The Sunday Afternoon Puzzle!

[lspencer534]

It's that time again! Grab a pencil and a beer and give it your best shot! No feckin' Googling!

1. Jethro and Tull landed jobs at a self-service gas station in Minnesota. Since it was Winter, they were glad they didn't have to pump gas outside. The gas station was high-tech; there were cameras that displayed the rear end of each car at the pumps on monitors inside the store.

Eventually Jethro and Tull got bored with their jobs, so to pass the time they started betting on which cars pulled up to the pump on the wrong side; that is, with the fuel door of the car not facing the pump. Jethro called it correctly more than 90% of the time; Tull got it right only 50% of the time since he was just guessing.

How do you explain Jethros's ability? Remember: The cameras show only the rear of the car; they do not show the side of the car pulling up to the pump.

2. A man has six gold chains, each with 5 links. He wants to make them into one continuous, circular, closed chain. He takes the chains to a jeweler to get a price for the work. The jeweler says, "It'll cost $1 for every link I have to open and close. 6 chains--$6." Can it be done cheaper by the same jeweler?

3. The government pays tree farmers a specific fee for each row of 4 trees that they plant. One enterprising farmer came up with a way of planting 5 rows of 4 trees each using only 10 trees. How did he do it?

4. There are 2 telephone posts an unknown distance apart. Each pole is 100-feet tall. You have a rope that is 150-feet long. You attach one end of the rope to the top of one pole, and the other end to the top of the other pole. The sag in the rope is called a catenary, from the Latin word for chain.

The question is: How far apart are the poles if the bottom of the catenary is exactly 25-feet off the ground?

5. A ship is docked in the harbor. Over the side of the ship hangs a rope ladder with rungs a foot apart. The tide rises at the rate of 9 inches per hour. At the end of 6 hours, how much rope will still remain above water, assuming that 9 feet were above the water when the tide began to rise?

6. Which SPF sunscreen would be appropriate for these young women?:

[DAB]

#2 - 5 links opened and closed.

set aside 5 chain segments, open links on 6th segment, and join 2 segments with each link opened and closed.

[DAB]

#1 - domestic on driver's side; foreign on passenger's side (for the most part)

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by DAB

#2 - 5 links opened and closed.

set aside 5 chain segments, open links on 6th segment, and join 2 segments with each link opened and closed.

Couldn't you just open all 5 links of one segment to join it all together? Is this the same as what you're saying?

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by DAB

#1 - domestic on driver's side; foreign on passenger's side (for the most part)

There's a more accurate method.

[DAB]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

Couldn't you just open all 5 links of one segment to join it all together? Is this the same as what you're saying?

that's what i was trying to say.

as for the gas caps....

[prospero63]

#5 - 9 feet

[DAB]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

There's a more accurate method.

if the driver is blonde they get it wrong?

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by DAB

that's what i was trying to say.

as for the gas caps....

Gotcha. You da winner on the necklace question! Gas cap question is a pretty good one. The answer is something most folks don't know.

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

There's a more accurate method.

Gas filler door is on the opposite side of where the exhaust pipe is.

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by prospero63

#5 - 9 feet

Correct! Didn't fool ya.

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by datawiz

Gas filler door is on the opposite side of where the exhaust pipe is.

Damn, you're good! Yep, on cars with only one tailpipe, the gas filler door is on the opposite side of the car 99% of the time. [Did you Google?]

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by DAB

if the driver is blonde they get it wrong?

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

Damn, you're good! Yep, on cars with only one tailpipe, the gas filler door is on the opposite side of the car 99% of the time. [Did you Google?]

Nope. As a racer, it makes perfect sense. Then again, after being a car nut for nearly 30 years, it's pretty easy to spot that pattern over time. Also, in the case of dual exhaust cars, the door is usually on the driver's side for convenience.

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by datawiz

Nope. As a racer, it makes perfect sense. Then again, after being a car nut for nearly 30 years, it's pretty easy to spot that pattern over time. Also, in the case of dual exhaust cars, the door is usually on the driver's side for convenience.

Right again. Sheit...I thought I had one that nobody could answer!

[prospero63]

#3 - plant them in an X with the extra tree on one of the "arms" of the X

x       x
  x   x
    x
  x   x
x       x
           x

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by prospero63

#3 - plant them in an X with the extra tree on one of the "arms" of the X

x       x
  x   x
    x
  x   x
x       x
           x

I'm not seeing the 5 rows of 4 trees each.

[prospero63]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

I'm not seeing the 5 rows of 4 trees each.

Let's try it like this...

1       7
  2   8
    3
  9  4
0      5
          6

1234
2345
3456
7839
0938

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by prospero63

Let's try it like this...

1       7
  2   8
    3
  9  4
0      5
          6

1234
2345
3456
7839
0938

Okay, I see the confusion. The trees must have 5 rows of 4 trees each. Four separate rows. Four trees in each row. Does that help?

[DAB]

Originally Posted by lspencer534

Okay, I see the confusion. The trees must have 5 rows of 4 trees each. Four separate rows. Four trees in each row. Does that help?

5 rows of 4, correct? 10 trees total


otherwise, you could plant 10 trees in one line and have 7 'rows' of 4 all total.