Guest Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 There is an advert in a local Hardware shop that reads: Buy 1 for $1.00 10 for $2.00 100 for $3.00 I needed 913 and still only paid $3.00. How could this be financially viable for the shop-keeper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 They are numbers for houses and it's $1 per digit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Nice. Well Done Chebdon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 I don't get it. Expalin please? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 I don't get it. Expalin please? thanks. Suppose your house address is 1234 Whichever Rd. A storm blows in and blows the numbers off your house so nobody driving by would know what address your house was (hopefully the postman would still know though). Anyway, you now need to buy new numbers a new "1", a new "2", a new "3" and a new "4" to be able to display your address on your house again. If you go to the local hardware store, you will have to buy 4 numbers at $1 each and your cost would be $4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 OK. But how about this is... What if each was a box of 10 whatevers! Then 100 [x10] would be a 1000, you only needed 913 whatevers, so it would still be $3!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 wow nice i dont have a clue how you figured that one out lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 itachi-san Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 (edited) I posted this same riddle 2 days ago and it got locked immediately Oh never mind, I didn't realize someone dug it up, my bad Edited March 21, 2008 by itachi-san Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 rookie1ja Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 I posted this same riddle 2 days ago and it got locked immediately Oh never mind, I didn't realize someone dug it up, my bad I locked your topic and directed discussion to this older topic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 (edited) an alternate solution: does the shop allow refund? buy 100 for 3, refund 3 (one by one) and get another 100 for those 3 and so on. note: 'refund' may mean selling this in some other market where there are no such offers. Edited March 21, 2008 by sunrise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 22, 2008 Report Share Posted April 22, 2008 an alternate solution: does the shop allow refund? buy 100 for 3, refund 3 (one by one) and get another 100 for those 3 and so on. note: 'refund' may mean selling this in some other market where there are no such offers. Huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 an alternate solution: does the shop allow refund? buy 100 for 3, refund 3 (one by one) and get another 100 for those 3 and so on. note: 'refund' may mean selling this in some other market where there are no such offers. I think you may have missed the point. There isn't 100 of anything. There are 3 items. a 1 and two 0's. 1-0-0 to be placed on your house or mailbox. Such as 100 Evergreen Terrace. The trick was that naturally you would assume that the value of '100' was intended, but it wasn't. It was '100' as a reference. Hope that helped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 No but sunrise's solution would still work I think. That is what I thought the answer might be. If someone else finds a completely different answer to a riddle that still works then you can’t really say its 'wrong'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 No but sunrise's solution would still work I think. That is what I thought the answer might be. If someone else finds a completely different answer to a riddle that still works then you can’t really say its 'wrong'. Then maybe it is me who doesn't understand. I didn't say that was incorrect, I said that wasn't the solution that was intended. I (possibly incorrectly) assumed that sunrise meant buying 100 numbers for $3, which I don't think was what the OP meant. If you bought the 3 numbers (1-0-0) for $3 and then returned them, what use would that be? Please explain. Haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Well yes I understand how that wasn't the intended solution, I'm just saying that it could work in theory. I know that the in OP 10 and 100 are numbers but there is no reason why it cannot be interpreted as actual quantities of items... so you could by 100 objects for $3. Maybe the shop keeper has some weird sale on or something . But in fairness I would agree that the proper solution makes more sense. Edited April 30, 2009 by psychic_mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Well yes I understand how that wasn't the intended solution, I'm just saying that it could work in theory. I know that the in OP 10 and 100 are numbers but there is no reason why it cannot be interpreted as actual quantities of items... so you could by 100 objects for $3. Maybe the shop keeper has some weird sale on or something . But in fairness I would agree that the proper solution makes more sense. Agreed. What I was getting at was that if you bought 100 items for $3, you couldn't sell back 3 items and get your money back. You would have to sell back all 100. Otherwise this would not be "financial viable" for the shop keeper as the OP stipulates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Taimur Ahmad Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 He needed three digits 9,1 and 3. Since 1 digit was of $1,so he paid $3 for 3 digits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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There is an advert in a local Hardware shop that reads:
Buy 1 for $1.00
10 for $2.00
100 for $3.00
I needed 913 and still only paid $3.00. How could this be financially viable for the shop-keeper?
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