Puzzled?

You see a shirt you like for £97, but dont have any cash, so you borrow £50 from your mum and £50 from your dad = £100. You buy the shirt and have £3 change, so give mum £1, dad £1 and keep the other £1 for yourself. You now owe mum £49 and dad £49...£49 + £49 = £98 + your £1, making £99....where is the missing £1??


discuss.....

spazzoman

tht didnt make sense

This is a typical puzzle that incorporates feeding the reader a false assumption. Here is the answer :
The logical statement is that £49 + £49 = £98 and now you have to SUBTRACT £1 from 98 and not ADD it. The reason is this formula: total spending = total cost. £98 = £97(for shirt) + £1(for you)
Now u can see what the problem does: look at the above equation, instead of adding £1 to 97, it deceives u to add 1 to 98 and get 99.
or u can look it in another way: 100 = 49 + 49 +1 +1 this last +1 is because u still owe mum and dad £0.5 each for stealing that £1!

by3

you probably put the missing £1 towards your crack habit spazzoman

Always 1 clever cloggs phz :D Its funny how many still dont get it.

rose youve got ginger pubes u cant have a say on life. As for you m1kke that £1 gets me a load of your mums crack ;)

I remember this "puzzle" from my year 7 tutor and I still couldn't believe that there were people at that time who didn't get it

really?

half of £97 is £48.50p....

spazzoman