/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8349172
To make up for it:

Each end of a 10-foot length of rope is tied securely to a man's ankles. Without cutting or untying the rope, is it possible to remove his trousers, turn them inside out on the rope, and put them back on correctly?

Most of these puzzles were taken from Martin Gardner's Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems.

>>8349099
That was indeed an amusing problem concerning Casey and the Mudville nine--amusing, that is, to all save lovers of Mudville. For on the unfortunate day described in your problem, Mudville scored not a single run. This is what happened:

In the first inning, Casey and two of his confreres reached base, but batters four through six struck, flied, or otherwise made out. No runs.

In the second inning, batters seven and eight struck out, let us say, but the Mudville pitcher, to the surprise of all, reached base on a bobbled infield roller. Casey came up to bat, frowning mightily. With the count two and two, the perfidious rival pitcher, ignoring the best interests of poetry, baseball mythology and Mudville, whirled toward first and picked off his opposite number, who, dreaming of Cooperstown and the Hall of Fame, had strolled too far from the bag. THe crowd sighed, Casey glowered, and the inning was over: no runs.

Now as you know, if an inning ends with a pick-off play at any base, the batter who was in the box at the time becomes the first batter next inning. So it was with Casey; once again Mudville loaded the bases; but once again three outs were made with no runs scoring, so that the inning ended with batter si making the last out.

Life may be linear but fate is cyclic: innings four, six, and eight followed precisely the same pattern as inning two (though you may be sure that after his second miscue in the fourth, the Mudville pitcher was lifted and his relief was responsible for only the flood of runs the opponents scored, but for similar cloud-gazing base-paths). And of course, Case led off the fifth, seventh, and ninth innings as he had the third--and again, Mudville would load the bases, but could not deliver (if I remember correctly, the gentlemen responsible for this orgy of weak hitting were Cooney, Burrows, Blake and Flynn). Grand total for Mudville: a goose egg.

Sorry I was unaware of that trick too. Becomes a baseball question.

>>8348940
So apparently this was a real game.
The solution is 0 runs.
I'll type it out later because theres lots of color.

Thisll prob be it for today. My comp is back to full power

>>8348799
>>8348803
correct

>>8348734
and for the puzzle, how about a classic:
Three missionaries and three cannibals must cross a river using a canoe, which can only carry two people. But if there are ever more cannibals than missionaries on either shore, the cannibals will overpower the poor missionaries and eat them. There's a strong current so the boat cannot be sent across the river without any people rowing.

>>8348756
I don't think there is one. That's the beauty.
Here's another one for whatever algo you want to develope:
How do you measure 9 minutes with a 4min and 7min hourglass?

>>8348713
Correct.
Give me a min for more clues

>>8348656
That's 14 min. Pretty sure
And by math do you want puzzles or more jeopardy questions?

>>8348576
How do you set an 11 minute hourglass to 7.5?
> 9 runs?
nope. fewer

>>8348558
>>8348562
>7+4+11=22 minutes?
That's a solution, but not the optimal one.
Also show how!

>>8348540
nope, there's a smaller answer.
I also require a short proof for these.
>>8348530
Here have another:
With a 7-minute hourglass and an 11-minute hourglass, what is the quickest way to time the boiling of an egg for 15 minutes?

>>8348448
During a baseball game in Mudville, Case was Mudville's lead-off batter. There were no substitutions or changes in the batting order of the nine Mudville men throughout the nine-inning game. It tured out that Casey came to bat in every inning. What is the least number of runs Mudville could have scored?

>>8348438
correct, category?

>>8348427
forgot my image, sorry for the wait

>>8348282
correct

>>8348250

>>8348226
Correct, category?

>>8348214

>>8348058
Correct, category?

>>8347923
>>8347945
Correct, sorry for the wait

>>8347757

>>8347731
Correct, category?

>>8347716
Correct
>>8347699

>>8347698