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Riddle(WARNING:invovles logic).
I TO DA GEEZY:
10 boxes all locked- same size same color
Given- 5 coins have been scattered over 5 of the boxes
You've been aloud to open 4 boxes out of the 10.
After having opened them you realize all 4 are empty.
Now to the question:
Can you logically claim there are no coins within the rest of the boxes based on your findings?
nibs:
yes, it's clear that all the boxes are empty.
several reasons:
a) we know that the boxes were locked before the coins were scattered over them. how can the coins get into a locked box?
b) we know that the boxes are identical. there's no way the boxes are identical if some have coins in them and some do not.
c) the coins probably fell onto the floor between the gaps in the boxes. has anyone checked the floor?
d) who scattered these coins? can we trust them? i submit the coins were never scattered, but pocketed by an untrustworthy individual who then sent us on a wild goose chase.
e) what prevented hobos or pan handlers from retrieving the coins? was anyone looking out for hobo's and panhandlers?
f) it's too expensive to continue searching through these boxes when preliminary results indicate the boxes are empty.
g) who checked the first four boxes? how do we know that person is honest? if all five coins have already been recovered there can't be any more coins in the other six boxes.
h) there are no coins, and there are no boxes.
i) there are too many reasons why the boxes might be empty to conclude anything other than the boxes are empty.
J @ M @ L:
--- Quote from: I TO DA GEEZY on December 21, 2005, 10:04:07 PM ---Genetic researches on Ashkenazi Jews don't show any Khazar bloodline
--- End quote ---
--- Quote from: I TO DA GEEZY on December 21, 2005, 10:04:07 PM ---A researcher deals with science and facts and wouldn't say all Jews didn't have Khazar bloodline because that would be a generalization. Generalization is something you're used to
--- End quote ---
Now can we logically conclude that you're an idiot?
[sepehr]:
--- Quote from: JML - no vowels, disembowel your Colin Powell, throw in the towel on January 03, 2006, 02:45:03 PM ---
--- Quote from: I TO DA GEEZY on December 21, 2005, 10:04:07 PM ---Genetic researches on Ashkenazi Jews don't show any Khazar bloodline
--- End quote ---
--- Quote from: I TO DA GEEZY on December 21, 2005, 10:04:07 PM ---A researcher deals with science and facts and wouldn't say all Jews didn't have Khazar bloodline because that would be a generalization. Generalization is something you're used to
--- End quote ---
Now can we logically conclude that you're an idiot?
--- End quote ---
LMAO
nibs nailed it
Trauma-san:
No, you can't logically conclude that there's no coins in the box. You can't conclude anything, because there isn't a large enough sample? (wording may be wrong) set. If there were 10,000 boxes, and you opened 4,000 of them, and didn't find any of the 5,000 coins, then maybe you could conclude, logically, that stastistically speaking, there cannot be 5,000 coins in the remaining 6,000 boxes.
4 out of 10 you can't conclude anything.
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