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To: AndyTheBear
Yeah I also wondered if it was a trick question

I love trick questions. One of my favorites, which needs to be told, goes like this:

An empty bus (except for the driver) pulls up to the first stop. Two people get on. At the next stop, six people get on. Then eight peolpe get on, and two get off. Then seven people get on. At the next stop, three get on, and five get off. At the next stop, Three get on and one gets off.

Question: How many stops did it make?

Very rare than anyone gets the right answer.

89 posted on 01/11/2022 8:30:52 AM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: FatherofFive

Well seems the trick there is to not accidently count an instance of passengers getting on and off as a stop. So if I counted carefully enough there were four mentioned. But then a pedantic ad hoc interpretation might be that there may be other unmentioned stops so that the answer is at least four. I kind of like challenging logic problems more.


102 posted on 01/11/2022 8:39:03 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: FatherofFive

Looks like 4 stops.


155 posted on 01/11/2022 2:21:50 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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