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MonkeyFiend
post Jan 30 2009, 04:30 PM
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I'm bored, so I thought I'd annoy you with a mathematical puzzle...a nice simple one though.....

Monkeyfiend has 3 boxes: 1,2 & 3.

In one of the boxes is £1000000, the others contain something rubbish. You pick a box, say box No.1 and MonkeyFiend (who knows whats in each of the boxes), opens another box, say box 3, which contains a rubbish prize. Monkeyfiend then says do you want to pick box No.2 or stay with your original choice of box 1?

Which should you do and why?

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post Feb 6 2009, 05:57 PM
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well done 6 you probably worked it out quicker than i could type it out laugh.gif @ monkey the forums/ shoutbox r a better read than the daily star /sun etc particularly when gunners is in full flow blink.gif


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- MonkeyFiend   Friday Maths Problem   Jan 30 2009, 04:30 PM
- - Magik5   ive seen 21 so i no the answer. i cant quite remem...   Jan 30 2009, 04:37 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   FAIL   Jan 30 2009, 04:39 PM
- - Magik5   dvds round gfs, so cant chk   Jan 30 2009, 05:02 PM
- - =R6= Raile   how long did monkeyfiend stare at the box before h...   Jan 30 2009, 05:03 PM
- - Magik5   RE: Friday Maths Problem   Jan 30 2009, 05:08 PM
- - fido77   u choose the #2 box if and only if the #1 box cont...   Jan 30 2009, 05:13 PM
- - =R6= Raile   is fido's the real answer? cuz it sounds like...   Jan 30 2009, 05:30 PM
- - fido77   i doubt its the answer. it doesn't say if u sa...   Jan 30 2009, 05:51 PM
- - Magik5   you havent seen inside the boxes yet, youve just p...   Jan 30 2009, 06:09 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   nope the original is phrased corretly I believe: y...   Jan 30 2009, 07:14 PM
- - foxx_in_socks   I know the answer!!! muahahahah   Jan 30 2009, 07:16 PM
- - Magik6   You punch monkey in the face, steal both boxes and...   Jan 30 2009, 08:34 PM
- - =R6= Raile   mmm the original did not say you pick a box and do...   Jan 31 2009, 11:14 AM
- - MonkeyFiend   Equally I didn't say the boxes explode into a ...   Jan 31 2009, 11:40 AM
- - Magik6   You never said we acctually pick box, just that as...   Jan 31 2009, 12:15 PM
- - fido77   ((p=>q)&(q=>r))=>(p=>r) = ++++++++...   Jan 31 2009, 01:32 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   I just don't see how a uniform (t-suf) subsitu...   Jan 31 2009, 01:39 PM
- - =R6= Raile   if it isn't some trickery of words.. and you t...   Jan 31 2009, 01:52 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   fraid not, old chap   Jan 31 2009, 03:22 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   Anyway the correct answer to my adaptation of the ...   Jan 31 2009, 03:30 PM
- - fido77   p:takes it up the arse, q:sucks cock, r:likes assr...   Jan 31 2009, 04:22 PM
- - Magik5   http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cXqDIFUB7YU&...featu...   Jan 31 2009, 11:28 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   here comes another one:   Feb 6 2009, 10:12 AM
- - Magik5   cos the orange one isnt on top of the green one li...   Feb 6 2009, 10:36 AM
- - MonkeyFiend   ...but how can re-arranging the blocks of the same...   Feb 6 2009, 10:50 AM
- - MonkeyFiend   might be easier to produce the answer in the follo...   Feb 6 2009, 10:51 AM
- - Lawpf2001   do we need to use pythagorus' theory??   Feb 6 2009, 11:25 AM
- - MonkeyFiend   muhahah I won't giving clues or telling the an...   Feb 6 2009, 12:09 PM
- - Cobolt   I know, I know XD (Well, I think I do, one of the ...   Feb 6 2009, 12:43 PM
- - Lawpf2001   think your right. if you start at the top of the t...   Feb 6 2009, 01:16 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   Good Work! The answer is because it's n...   Feb 6 2009, 01:21 PM
- - fido77   i just saw this, and i'm too late!!...   Feb 6 2009, 01:49 PM
- - Lawpf2001   as its still Friday and we've sold this one il...   Feb 6 2009, 01:51 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   wooo I got 20   Feb 6 2009, 02:04 PM
|- - Lawpf2001   QUOTE(MonkeyFiend @ Feb 6 2009, 01:04 PM)...   Feb 6 2009, 02:21 PM
- - fido77   i got a 13   Feb 6 2009, 02:31 PM
- - Lawpf2001   I got 15   Feb 6 2009, 02:33 PM
- - dumdum71   a man goes 2 market and buys a chicken,a fox and s...   Feb 6 2009, 04:18 PM
- - Lawpf2001   fox eats chicken eats grain   Feb 6 2009, 04:21 PM
|- - MonkeyFiend   QUOTE(Lawpf2001 @ Feb 6 2009, 04:21 PM) f...   Feb 6 2009, 05:20 PM
- - Magik6   The man takes the chicken over first from side A t...   Feb 6 2009, 04:30 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   good to see you still on the forums dumdum   Feb 6 2009, 05:21 PM
- - dumdum71   well done 6 you probably worked it out quicker tha...   Feb 6 2009, 05:57 PM
- - Lawpf2001   oh i was convinced Gunners that did the reporting ...   Feb 6 2009, 06:00 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   what's weird is that gunners visits the site m...   Feb 6 2009, 06:40 PM
- - Magik5   more then me? christ.   Feb 6 2009, 07:17 PM
- - Lawpf2001   ooh how many times do I visit??   Feb 6 2009, 07:59 PM
- - fido77   when is it true that A - B = B - A???? and how man...   Feb 6 2009, 08:39 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   when A and B are any (positive) number but both th...   Feb 6 2009, 09:23 PM
- - fido77   lol. that was one of my math probs today. i just p...   Feb 6 2009, 09:38 PM
- - Magik6   Why thank you dumdum , you've always been my f...   Feb 6 2009, 10:24 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   ooh forgot it was friday and time for another ridd...   Feb 13 2009, 03:57 PM
- - fido77   one son, one father and one grandfather. if i need...   Feb 13 2009, 04:26 PM
- - fido77   ok, now that i got the answer up there first i...   Feb 13 2009, 04:30 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   good work and speedy too   Feb 13 2009, 04:31 PM
- - fido77   i'm just cool like that   Feb 13 2009, 05:24 PM
- - Lawpf2001   that was easy   Feb 13 2009, 06:23 PM
- - Magik6   Almost as easy as 5   Feb 13 2009, 07:24 PM
- - fido77   somebody forgot about the math problem on friday...   Feb 23 2009, 03:37 PM
- - Jearik   The answer to the math problem I did horrible p...   Feb 24 2009, 01:44 AM
- - MonkeyFiend   Since I couldn't think of a puzzle that people...   Mar 13 2009, 12:35 PM
- - Magik6   Pass   Mar 13 2009, 12:37 PM
- - fido77   i couldn't click on it, so i copied and pasted...   Mar 13 2009, 12:54 PM
|- - Magik6   QUOTE(fido77 @ Mar 13 2009, 12:54 PM) how...   Mar 13 2009, 01:14 PM
|- - fido77   QUOTE(Magik6 @ Mar 13 2009, 07:14 AM) I r...   Mar 13 2009, 01:23 PM
|- - MonkeyFiend   QUOTE(Magik6 @ Mar 13 2009, 01:14 PM) I r...   Mar 13 2009, 03:00 PM
- - Magik5   floating point numbers...?   Mar 13 2009, 01:03 PM
- - fido77   not floating point numbers. just .9 repeated.   Mar 13 2009, 01:09 PM
- - kermit   come on guys my brain doesn't operate at this ...   Mar 13 2009, 01:18 PM
- - Magik5   lol   Mar 13 2009, 01:25 PM
- - Magik6   How can you not follow that? Its just a simple sub...   Mar 13 2009, 01:26 PM
- - fido77   um, no its not   Mar 13 2009, 01:36 PM
- - Magik6   It clearly is we need an official adjudicator   Mar 13 2009, 01:40 PM
- - Magik5   if u think you no it so well why dont you give an ...   Mar 13 2009, 01:44 PM
- - Magik6   If you start with 10X represented by the number 9....   Mar 13 2009, 01:58 PM
|- - fido77   QUOTE(Magik6 @ Mar 13 2009, 07:58 AM) If ...   Mar 13 2009, 02:04 PM
- - Magik5   lol   Mar 13 2009, 02:06 PM
- - Magik6   You still don't get it? if not you'd fail ...   Mar 13 2009, 02:10 PM
- - fido77   i think you failed!!! hehe   Mar 13 2009, 02:27 PM
- - Magik5   lol   Mar 13 2009, 02:31 PM
- - Magik5   lol   Mar 13 2009, 03:09 PM
- - fido77   well, at least that looks better than the way 6 pu...   Mar 13 2009, 03:18 PM
- - Magik5   for example   Mar 13 2009, 03:20 PM
- - fido77   for example your momma!!! a little...   Mar 13 2009, 03:28 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   dedekind cuts, cauchy sequences etc., However thes...   Mar 13 2009, 03:29 PM
- - fido77   nerds we are. lol   Mar 13 2009, 03:33 PM
- - Lawpf2001   swear I did that in my GCSE's (age 14-16 for t...   Mar 13 2009, 06:32 PM
- - Vincent Dank Gogh   Monty hall problem, look it up. Or just click righ...   Jul 27 2015, 11:04 PM
- - MonkeyFiend   QUOTE (Vincent Dank Gogh @ Jul 28 2015, 12...   Jul 28 2015, 08:53 AM
- - Porsuk   QUOTE (MonkeyFiend @ Jul 28 2015, 09:53 A...   Jul 28 2015, 02:37 PM


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