Riddle of the Day

[Gizmokid2005]

Awesome!! But...adding [/threadhijack]

[Mathster]

Ooh ooh, I think I know this one! One to hold the lightbulb and ... no, wait, that's not right. Let's see, uh. Oh! I know! One to solve the riddle and three to accuse him of googling the answer.

thats becasue I was the first one smart enough to google the answer...

[Gizmokid2005]

My first is a number, my second another,
And each, I assure you, wil rhyme with the other.
My first you will find is one-fifth of my second,
And truly my whole a long period reckoned.
Yet my first and my seond(nay, think not I cozen),
When added together will make but two dozen.

ANSWER: Four Score.

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NEXT RIDDLE (Let's kickstart the brains for the week):

A man ordered a length of rope by telephone from his hardware store. But when he went to collect the rope, he found that the assistant had miswritten the order by interchanging feet and inches. As a result of this, the rope was only 30% of the length that the man wanted. So, what length did he want and what length did he get?

[acoustikarl]

NEXT RIDDLE (Let's kickstart the brains for the week):

A man ordered a length of rope by telephone from his hardware store. But when he went to collect the rope, he found that the assistant had miswritten the order by interchanging feet and inches. As a result of this, the rope was only 30% of the length that the man wanted. So, what length did he want and what length did he get?

Used trial and error to get this one. I'm not sure if there is a mathematical formula for it or not, but I came up with him requesting 9'2" of rope and getting 2'9". So was this the same store that did the Stonehenge sculpture for Spinal Tap?

[Mathster]

I agree with the new post *****.

lets see formula would be something like 12x+y=.3(12y+x)
solve for x in terms of y
the other formula you need is x=12y

I think.

[Heylinder]

Math this early in the morning .... no thank you!

[Mathster]

should have been here yesterday....

[Gizmokid2005]

A man ordered a length of rope by telephone from his hardware store. But when he went to collect the rope, he found that the assistant had miswritten the order by interchanging feet and inches. As a result of this, the rope was only 30% of the length that the man wanted. So, what length did he want and what length did he get?

ANSWER (Congrats Acoustikarl): He requested 9'2" and got 2'9".

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NEXT RIDDLE:

What is it that stands aloft and regulates our daily movements, yet feels no interest in our concerns; directs us when to go and when to come. Yet cares not whether we attend of not; still, thus indifferent to our fate, often strikes a blow to urge us on, though we feel no resentment when the reproof is given?

[Mathster]

I think you just discribed my boss...

[Gizmokid2005]

LOL!! As fitting as boss/supervisor/etc. sounds here, it's not the answer.