[Guest]

There is a lake, of square shape. There are four temples on each corner. There is a flower tree next to, say temple no 1. The pond has this magic power, if a flower is dip into the water it doubles the quantity. There is a warning note from the priest, saying "No flower should be wasted".

So the puzzle is, how many flowers should be plucked from the tree and should be offered in the temple and after offering at each temple, no flower should be left. Each temple has to be offered the same number of flower. Before offering, flowers has to be dipped in to the pond to get it double, as he can pluck the flowers from the tree only once, so he has to be carefull in choosing, the total number of flowers.

FYI...

1. How many flowers needs to be plucked?

2. How many flowers should be offered, so at the end no flower is left.

[Hint: Number of flowers plucked and offered could be different.]

[unreality]

there are 16 temples?

[Guest]

there are 16 temples?

LOL...thr r only 4 temples...trust me i have been to this place.

[unreality]

YOU LIVE ON JUPITER?????

[unreality]

sorry it's just, I don't understand the riddle lol

you say FYI....then give the questions. And you say there are 4 temples on each corner, but only 4 temples total

and the flower/tree/pond/temple thing... it's just not making sense to me...

Edited July 16, 2008 by unreality

[Guest]

There is a lake, of square shape. There are four temples on each corner. There is a flower tree next to, say temple no 1. The pond has this magic power, if a flower is dip into the water it doubles the quantity. There is a warning note from the priest, saying "No flower should be wasted".

So the puzzle is, how many flowers should be plucked from the tree and should be offered in the temple and after offering at each temple, no flower should be left. Each temple has to be offered the same number of flower. Before offering, flowers has to be dipped in to the pond to get it double, as he can pluck the flowers from the tree only once, so he has to be carefull in choosing, the total number of flowers.

FYI...

1. How many flowers needs to be plucked?

2. How many flowers should be offered, so at the end no flower is left.

[Hint: Number of flowers plucked and offered could be different.]

Correction:

There are only four temples. One at each corner.

[unreality]

if a flower is dipped in the pond, it doubles the quantity of what? the flower? so wouldn't you pluck 1 flower, dip it, dip those 2 flowers to get 4, then offer 1 at each temple?

Edited July 16, 2008 by unreality

[Guest]

if a flower is dipped in the pond, it doubles the quantity of what? the flower? so wouldn't you pluck 1 flower, dip it, dip those 2 flowers to get 4, then offer 1 at each temple?

Hey unreality...ofcourse if u dip the flower, it'll double the flower, water can't be doubled.

If you see, it says

"Each temple has to be offered the same number of flower. Before offering, flowers has to be dipped in to the pond to get it double"

[unreality]

why can't water be doubled? flowers can't be doubled either then so if I dipped a gold coin in, would it double? what if I took a cup of the magic pool home with me, would it still work?

so each offered flower must've been dipped? and you can't waste any flowers? I think I get the riddle now

[Guest]

pluct 15 flowers from tree and offer 16 flowers to each temple...it works....dip each time from the first time u pluck.....

[Guest]

Umm right now I'm probably not getting this riddle,

are we trying to get the least number of flowers?

Because you could pick two, and dip them both, and that would give you four flowers -- one for each of the temples.

[Guest]

pick one and dip/bbl it

then dip the two/dbl

dip 4 x 2

dip 8 x 2....

I'll open a flower kiosk, why give them to a temple so you can open a flower kiosk

[Guest]

There are infinite solution to the problem.

any 15m flowers can be plucked whrere m is any integer greater than zero. and 16m folwer can be offered on each tample.