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11-24-2002, 06:44 AM
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 1 Logic Problem + 1 Probability Problem = MajorWager Cap! <u>Logic Problem</u> Rookie Cards Six baseball collecting friends recently added to their large collections with purchases on eBay; each bought a rookie card of a past or present baseball star, with no two boys paying the same sum for their cards. From the info below, can you determine the card each boy bought and how much he spent for it? Bo paid twice as much for the 1986 Barry Bonds rookie card he bought as Greg spent on his card. Ian spent less than Chad, whose card wasn't the most expensive of the six; the difference in price between Ian's and Chad's cards was less than $10.00. The 1987 Greg Maddux rookie card one collector acquired cost half as much as the card Jeff purchased. The 1957 card of Hall-of-Famer Al Kaline went for $4.00 more than the 1957 card of Hall-of-Famer Jim Bunning; the Bunning rookie card cost its buyer $4.00 more than the card Bo bought cost him. Warren's winning eBay bid on a card was twice as much as that of the boy who added the 1990 Sammy Sosa to his collection. One collector paid $6.00 for a 1987 Mark McGwire rookie card. Ian isn't the one who acquired the 1987 Greg Maddux card, even though the Atlanta Braves star is his favorite pitcher. ***************************************
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11-25-2002, 04:52 PM
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| Jeff / 1957 Al Kaline / $20.00 Warren / 1957 Jim Bunning / $16.00 Bo / 1986 Barry Bonds / $12.00 Chad / 1987 Greg Maddux / $10.00 Ian / 1990 Sammy Sosa / $8.00 Greg / 1987 Mark McGwire / $6.00 |
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11-25-2002, 04:55 PM
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| Jeff-Al Kaline-20 Warren-Bunning-16 Bo-Bonds-12 Chad-Maddux-10 Ian-sosa-8 greg-mcgwire-6 |
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11-25-2002, 04:55 PM
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| ahhhh 3 minutes booo [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] good job BP. |
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11-25-2002, 05:04 PM
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| Wow.. You guys are FAST! Congrats BettorsPub. Send your mailing info to Freddie thedevil@majorwager.com and we'll get a cap off to you. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] Logic Problem Solution: Rookie Cards By clue 1, Bo bought a 1986 Barry Bonds rookie card. Since by the introduction no two cards cost the same amount, and since Greg's purchase cost half as much as Bo's (1), Greg didn't buy the 1987 Greg Maddux, which cost half as much as Jeff's new card (3), or the 1990 Sammy Sosa, which cost half what Warren's rookie card did (5). Since Greg spent less than Bo (1), by clue 4, Greg also didn't buy the two Hall-of-Famers' cards, the 1957 Al Kaline and the 1957 Jim Bunning. Greg bought the 1987 Mark McGwire rookie card--for $6.00 (6). Then Bo spent $12.00 (1), the 1957 Jim Bunning cost $16.00, and the 1957 Al Kaline went for $20.00 (4). Neither the 1987 Greg Maddux (3) nor the 1990 Sammy Sosa (5) rookie card cost the most, so the 1957 Al Kaline at $20.00 was the most expensive of the six cards. Neither Chad nor Ian bought the 1957 Al Kaline for the highest amount (2), so either Jeff or Warren did. Then by clues 3 and 5, the fifth card to the four already named sold for $10.00 and is either the 1987 Greg Maddux (3) or the 1990 Sammy Sosa (5). The sixth card is the other of the Maddux and Sosa and had to sell for less than $10.00, since it was half the cost of one of the four cards other than the Kaline already named. Neither Jeff (3) nor Warren (5) could have bought the sixth card for under $10.00, or there then would be a seventh purchase. If Chad had bought the sixth card for under $10.00, there would be no card under Chad's for Ian to have bought. Ian bought the sixth card, by clue 7 the 1990 Sammy Sosa. The rookie card that went for $10.00 was the 1987 Greg Maddux. Jeff then spent $20.00 on the Al Kaline rookie card (3). If Warren had purchased the Greg Maddux card, by clue 5, Ian would have spent $5.00 on the Sammy Sosa. By elimination, then, Chad would have paid $16.00 for the Jim Bunning card, $11.00 more than Ian spent and a conflict with clue 2. So, Warren bought the 1957 rookie card of Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning for $16.00, and Ian paid $8.00 for the Sosa (5). Chad acquired Greg Maddux's rookie card for his collection. The six boys bought their rookie cards on eBay as follows: Jeff, 1957 Al Kaline, $20.00 Warren, 1957 Jim Bunning, $16.00 Bo, 1986 Barry Bonds, $12.00 Chad, 1987 Greg Maddux, $10.00 Ian, 1990 Sammy Sosa, $8.00 Greg, 1987 Mark McGwire, $6.00 CRpuzzles.com. Copyright © 2000-2001 by Calvin J. Hamilton & Randall L. Whipkey.
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11-25-2002, 05:07 PM
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| You want another one, just for fun? This one seems a bit more complicated. Using these facts, determine the names of the men playing the various positions on the baseball team. Andy dislikes the catcher. Ed's sister is engaged to the second baseman. The center fielder is taller than the right fielder. Harry and the third baseman live in the same building. Paul and Allen each won $20 from the pitcher at pinochle. Ed and the outfielders play poker during their free time. The pitcher's wife is the third baseman's sister. The pitcher, catcher, and infielders except Allen, Harry, and Andy, are shorter than Sam. Paul, Andy, and the shortstop lost $50 each at the racetrack. Paul, Harry, Bill, and the catcher took a trouncing from the second baseman at pool. Sam is involved in a divorce suit. The catcher and the third baseman each have two children. Ed, Paul, Jerry, the right fielder, and the center fielder are bachelors. The others are married. The shortstop, the third baseman, and Bill each cleaned up $100 betting on the fight. One of the outfielders is either Mike or Andy. Jerry is taller than Bill. Mike is shorter than Bill. Each of them is heavier than the third baseman.
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11-25-2002, 05:09 PM
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| congrats BP... but what I wanna know is are you going to wear a bettorspub t-shirt and a majorwager hat??? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] again congrats |
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11-25-2002, 05:13 PM
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| Probably not, just wanted to finally win something, since you are always beating me on the contests!!! We are to cheap to have shirts and hats, so figured I would mark out the Major and write BP up there..haha just kidding. You are more than welcome to it!!! |
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11-25-2002, 05:35 PM
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| Minnow, Please make this the last one of these. There's something in my genetic makeup that precludes me from ignoring puzzles. andy - 3b ed - ss harry - p paul- 1b allen - c bill - cf sam - lf jerry - 2b mike -rf |
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11-25-2002, 08:03 PM
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| Here's one more that might be a bit tougher to solve: Private Investigator Bob Banning walked into Police Detective Ed Kramer's office at the Shelby Montana police station. "You call for me, Ed?" he asked. "Yes," Kramer replied, "I need your help solving the robbery last night." "Ahh, I read about that," Bob noted. "The Heritage Bank. The robber got away with about $75,000, right?" "Closer to $80,000," said Kramer. And we don't have many clues to work with. Of course, we rounded up the usual suspects. Some have vaid ailbis, others don't. We originally narrowed it down to six people: Fingers Freddie, Klondike Kate, Yukon Eric, Indian John, Cindy the Fencer, and Mike the Mooch." "Not the types you'd invite to your daughter's wedding," Bob grinned. "Nope," Kramer agreed, "not that I have to worry about my daughter getting married. You know her preferences....." "So does the rest of Shelby," Bob noted, "all of upper Montana, and most of lower Canada." Kramer cleared his throat and continued, "Anyhow, here are the clues we have. The robber didn't use any force. The locks were opened cleanly, and the safe was opened normally. So the robber didn't use any dynamite, crowbars, jimmies, or glass cutters to get in." "Why didn't the alarms go off?" Bob asked. "The system was down last night," Kramer answered, "and nobody even knew it. The night crew at Simms' Security isn't too swift. Anyway, there were some other weird things. The robber didn't take any the stacks of ten or twenty dollar bills, but he or she did take all the stacks of ones and fifties, as well as the hudreds, of course." "Weird," Bob acknowledged. "The robber didn't like twenties for some reason." "Another weird thing," Kramer said, "You remember that the company that cleans Heritage Bank went out of business last week?" Bob nodded. "Well," Kramer continued, "the bank hasn't hired another company to do its cleaning yet. But the robber took care of that for them. All of the floors were mopped and the counters were wiped down with one of those smelly lemon-ammonia Mr. Clean type cleaners, the carpets were vacuumed, and the desks were all cleaned and varnished to a bright buff. The robber was a neat freak. He or she must have robbed and cleaned the place just before they got there in the morning, because the floors were still damp in places and you could smell perfume or cologne in the air---whoever did the job must have been wearing a whole bottle of it." "No fingerprints?" Bob queried. "None," Kramer replied, "and here's more weird stuff: the robber turned down the temperature on the thermostat. It was about 50 degrees (Farenheit) in there when they opened the doors in the morning. Also, for some odd reason, the robber stole all of paper clips and rubber bands. Every desk was cleaned out of those two things." Kramer sat up suddenly, then blurted: "Darn! Why didn't I think of this sooner?" "You onto something," Bob asked? "Klondike Kate!" Kramer said authoritatively. "She likes to keep things clean, which would explain why everything was tidied up, she's a real pack rat----you ever seen her house? There's junk stored in every nook and cranny---and she was raised in the far North and loves the cold---it's always chilly at her place. And the perfume part would fit." He got on the phone and spoke: "Stan: tell the guys to start concentrating on Klondike Kate. She's our chief suspect." "No, she's not," Bob said mildly. Kramer looked up. "What makes you so sure?" "The robber is trying to set it up so it looks like Kate did it," Bob said, "but it couldn't be her. Kate hates the smell of perfume. Remember when you had her in for questioning last year in the hardware store robbery and she was in the lineup next to Sue the Snitch. You know how much perfume Sue wears. Kate didn't stop complaining about it for a half-hour." "Darn, you're right," Kramer said with a sigh. "Do you have any idea who it might be?" "I do," Bob said. "It was in one of the clues." Bob told Kramer who he thought it was. "Bah, that's hokey," Kramer laughed. "But that person is a likely candidate anyway, and we have nothing to lose. We'll follow that lead." He got back on the phone. "Stan, we have a new chief suspect...." It turned out that Bob was right. Who did Bob think it was, and why? |
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11-26-2002, 04:48 AM
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| Sorry, major computer problems today, just getting back to this. Hockeyguru.. awesome, once again! Butch, I read that whole brainteaser, and still don't have a clue. Hopefully someone else will get it. official solution: Harry is the pitcher, Allen the catcher, Paul the first baseman, Jerry the second baseman, Andy the third baseman, Ed the shortstop, Sam the left fielder, Mike the right fielder, and Bill the center fielder.
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