And since I started posting pictures anyway, here is the window in my parents’ living-room. As you can see, my mother doesn’t have the same problems with decorating as I do:
And here is a riddle from my mother that I didn’t manage to solve. She is a math teacher but she didn’t manage to pass her mathematical capacities to me.
The riddle: There is a 12-story building. Two people live on the first floor, and then each floor has twice as many residents as the preceding floor. Which button gets pressed most often in the building’s elevator?
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The 1st.
Assuming all those people go out at some point they all have to call the elevator to the first floor to get back up to their floor when they get back in.
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Crap I read that wrong. I’ll be back with another answer…I think…
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No, you solved it on the very first try. 🙂
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I hoped that at least one person would fail to guess it. 🙂 But no such luck. Congratulations!
I now feel very stupid because I said the last floor.
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Yes!
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I was going to say first, as well, for the same reason. And then I was going to say none of them because the elevator’s broken.
Don’t feel bad. The last floor still makes sense, because the most people live there. So it should be…the second-most selected? Unless the other floors have lots of parties.
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I console myself by thinking that I simply have a different kind of logic, and who’s to say it’s any worse than the regular kind? 🙂
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Someone just posted this to me on Facebook:
http://www.planet-mag.com/2009/art/jenna-martin/asgarda/
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They should do whatever they like, of course. I’m just bothered by photos of little children among them. As we all know, I don’t enjoy it when people solve their psychological problems at the expense of kids.
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Ah I see now.
This reasoning is wrong:
“Assuming all those people go out at some point they all have to call the elevator to the first floor to get back up to their floor when they get back in.”
The reason its the 1st is because of the opposite of that actually.
“Assuming all those people go out at some point they all have to take the elevator to the first floor to get out of the building in the first place.”
Everyone in that building is using the 1st floor button except for the two people on the first floor.
Oh btw in case no else figured it up if you double the number of people as you go up its 4096 people on the 12th floor. This was before I realized that in true riddle fashion, that number was meant to make you waste time. Its not necessary to figure out how many people are on each floor to solve this.
Nice one.
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That’s what I did, I started figuring how many people there were on the top floor and that made me feel very muddled. I’m not good with numbers.
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The “LOBBY” button.
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The G button
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I was going to say the call button on the 1st floor for bringing the carriage to each floor.
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Thinking about it as a maths problem is what did you in. To work out the answer, you don’t need numbers at all, they just confuse the issue.
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Riddle: The ground floor button. All the residents of the building (except those living on the ground floor) have to push it.
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It must be the ground floor, everyone needs to use the ground floor to leave. Unless this is a trick question and everyone is using the stairs.
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