Bob Clark
2006-11-29 19:47:49 |
Please Help Need Assistance
Can anyone help me with either the solution to or setting up a grid for this problem? Thank you. Does anyone know anything about something called simultaneous equations? Perhaps that's the direction I need to look at. Thanks again.
Bob Clark
It's harvest time in the gardens of Orchard Close and the seven people in this puzzle have just taken different quantities of apples and pears from their trees: their very first pickings this year! Anyone might have picked the same number of apples and pears, so can you pick through the clues below to find out exactly what quantity of apples and pears each harvested?
a) Lynn picked one more pear than whoever picked either one more or one fewer apple than Jerry, who picked one more pear than Dolly. The person who picked three pears picked either seven or eight apples.
b) William picked either one more or one fewer apple than whoever picked one fewer pear than Matthew. Lynn picked either one more or one fewer apple than whoever picked two fewer than Jerry.
c) Matthew picked one fewer apple than the person who picked one fewer pear than June. Dermot picked fewer apples that whoever picked two fewer pears than William.
d) June picked more apples than Dermot, who picked either one more or one fewer pear than the person who picked one fewer apple than whoever picked five pears.
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Larry
2006-12-03 22:07:17 |
Re: Please Help Need Assistance
Why don't you just submit this as a problem? |
Gamer
2006-12-04 19:41:33 |
Re: Please Help Need Assistance
Probably too busy picking apples and pears in the gardens. |
Penny
2006-12-05 02:53:26 |
Re: Please Help Need Assistance
Your puzzle is a little ambiguous. What does this mean ? "...seven people in this puzzle have just taken different quantities of apples and pears from their trees..."
Can one person's number of apples equal another person's number of pears ?
If even that is not allowed, and if "Lynn picked either one more or one fewer apple than whoever picked two fewer [apples ?] than Jerry" was not a typo -- you didn't mean "two fewer pears than Jerry" -- then I find a unique solution where each person picked between 1 and 10 apples, and between 1 and 10 pears.
I did it with a fairly efficient VB program -- the automated equivalent of a grid.
I hesitate to put the soltion here. I have been cautioned about posting solutions on the forums, as this can ruin a future puzzle by giving the answer away.
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Penny
2006-12-05 19:09:21 |
Re: Please Help Need Assistance
Without further clarification on this one, I guess I will just let it slide.
It doesn't make sense to spend too much time on a puzzle that hasn't been through the review process.
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Bones3927
2006-12-17 20:15:46 |
Re: Please Help Need Assistance
Which forum should a person go enter to find problems that have gone thruough the proper review process? |
brianjn
2006-12-17 21:58:29 |
Re: Please Help Need Assistance
I am unsure as to what you mean.
I suspect that you mean "Where do I find the archive of problems?"
If that is the case, look at the "Category" section near the top of the Home page. select link for you favorite type of puzzle and you will get a list from which to choose, some categories have several pages. You will also find that people have commented on them.
Some comments are about seeking the solution, some actually provide one.
You may also note that some have an 'official' solution provided by the author; there are some that have not yet been solved, or the author hasn't released the solution.
Now, if you have further questions, or I have misinterpreted you question, come back here and either myself or another member will be only to happy to assist. |
Larry
2006-12-17 22:02:07 |
Re: Please Help Need Assistance
To Bones3927: To find problems, just search the site. The most recent dozen or so are right on the main page. Or, if you want to see all 'logic' puzzles for example, just click on the approprate category at the top of the page. Or put a key word in the search box.
Re: the Apples and Pears. The key fact here is that "apples and pears" is cockney rhyming slang for "stairs". But it's getting late and I have to climb up the apples to go to bed. |
