Guest Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 I say the answer is 1 considering it asked for minimum and not maximum. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 the answer would be 70 because at least 70 people lost an eye and if you had to have lost all four at lest 70 had to be injured with them all This was my thought process, although I thought it would be 85 (who lost a leg). Again, if the group is 100 exact, then it seems impossible to not have any overlap; further, if some % lost suffered all four wounds, then, by definition, they suffered one of those wounds. So, the *minimum* # would have to be the equivalent of the largest group suffering a single defined injury. I find this puzzle to be analogous to the one asking the max number of socks to be pulled from a drawer in the dark (so as to not see the socks) to get a match. The answer would be the # of colors + 1, since, at worst, you would pull one of each color out, and the next would automatically match one of the previous socks. What am I missing here? It seems to me that the question itself is not particularly clear. ./cr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 12, 2008 Report Share Posted July 12, 2008 if some % lost suffered all four wounds, then, by definition, they suffered one of those wounds. So, the *minimum* # would have to be the equivalent of the largest group suffering a single defined injury. No, the minimum number would have to be less than the smallest group suffering a single defined injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 13, 2008 Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 No, the minimum number would have to be less than the smallest group suffering a single defined injury. :-P Thbbbt!!! (To quote Bill the Cat) ... I got it now (I think). Starting with the 85, only SOME of the 85 suffered more than one injury, so yea, less than 85. And some of those injured may have suffered 2 or 3 injuries, but not all four. Ya know, they are brain teasers because you are supposed to *think* about them!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Why can't the answer be 1? The puzzle asks what the MINIMUM number of soldiers that lost all 4 parts. 10 isn't the absolute minimum, and maybe that one guy is just really unlucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 k i have no freakin idea how u guys got 10 and 15 i got 70 can someone explain it simply plz?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 I calculate 10- 85 missing legs, 65 of them missing arms, 40 of them missing ears (35 other ears distributed among others), and 10 of those 40 missing eyes along with all the other casualties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 k i have no freakin idea how u guys got 10 and 15 i got 70 can someone explain it simply plz?!?!? The question is "A group of 100 soldiers suffered the following injuries in a battle: 70 soldiers lost an eye, 75 lost an ear, 85 lost a leg, and 80 lost an arm. What is the minimum number of soldiers who must have lost all 4?" But the question asks for MINIMUM losing all 4...the answer is 10...which also spreads the devastation of losing 3 partS to all the soldiers. Look at the graph EYE = S EAR= R LEG= K ARM= Z 'X' is soldier without that injury (LETTERS CHOSEN FOR SIMILAR SIZE IN THIS FONT) "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" "RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" "KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK KKKKKKKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXZZZZZZZZZZ" If 70 soldiers had all 4 injuries then that leaves the remaining 30 soldiers only 5 missing ears, 15 missing legs and 10 losing arms ..each one only losing one part. 70 is the answer for MAXIMUM that have lost all 4. "SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" "RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" "KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZXXXXXZZZZZZZZZZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" I hope that explains it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 I solved this puzzle in three equasions, based on the fact that the intersection of two percentages sharing the same pool is one percentage minus the inverse of the second ( x = a - (100-b) ): 70% lost an eye, 75% lost an ear x = 70 - (100 - 75) x = 45 45% lost an eye AND an ear, 85% lost a leg x = 45 - (100 - 85) x = 30 30% lost an eye, an ear AND a leg, 80% lost an arm x = 30 - (100 - 80) x = 10 10% lost an eye, an ear, an arm AND a leg. I'm not sure if this formula (Described above) is common knowledge, but I've never seen it and it was an original thought for me, which makes me doubly proud. intersection(a,b) = a - (100 - b) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 I did this quite differently. I just thought about where the numbers overlapped, getting the number of victims who had more than one injury, starting with who lost eyes and ears, and then moving to who lost eyes, ears, and legs, and eventually to who lost eyes, ears, legs, and arms. Bear with me, I'm not too good at explaining my reasoning. =]. For instance, I subtracted 75 from 100, (25) and then subtracted 25 from 70, to get the area in between. This gave me 45. I then subtracted 85 from 100, getting 15, and then I took 15 from the 45 I had before, getting 30. Then i subtracted 80 from 100, getting 20, and then finally subtracted 20 from 30, for the area in between, receiving 10 (the answer) Sorry if this was confusing, it's hard explaining my brain's rational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 28, 2010 Report Share Posted January 28, 2010 the answer is 10 70 eyes and 75 ears over lap the least amount by 45 which meas at least 45 had two injuries leaving 25 from the 70 and 30 from the 75 having one injury add together and get 55 that had one injury but since there's 80 arms to keeps this lowest takes those from the 55 and the remainder from the 45 leaving 55 plus the remainder of 45 - 25 = 20 now we have 20 + 55 = 75 having two injuries and 25 having 3 injuries now the final 85 legs take 85 legs from the 75 two injuries group giving them 3 injuries and the remainder is taken away from the 25 group resulting in 10 having 4 injuries and 15 + 75 = 90 only having 3 injuries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_magician_92 Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 not really sure why everyone is trying to use math for the answer....but..the obvious answer is 70!!! 70 is the smallest number of anything lost everything else had a higher number...!! 70 will be the answer if the question wud have asked the max. ppl who got 4 injuries, but we have been askd min. ppl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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