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Buying Chestnuts (Posted on 2004-01-05) Difficulty: 3 of 5
(This "nonsense puzzle" gets its name from the puzzle I saw it from)

A shopper went into a shop and wanted a dollar's worth of chestnuts when he gave the shopkeeper a one dollar bill and was given five chestnuts. "It is not enough; I ought to have a sixth," the shopper remarked. "But you will have five too many if I gave you one chestnut more", the shopkeeper replied.

How many chestnuts should the man have gotten for 3 twenty dollar bills?

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Solution solution | Comment 7 of 20 |
The trick in this question is that when the shopkeeper replies that the shopper would have "five too many" if he received an extra chestnut; the 'five' refers to the 'sixth' that the shopper mentioned in the previous sentence. Thus the shopkeeper was saying that the rate for chestnuts was 5 and 1/6 chestnuts for $1. Thus if the shopper received 6 chestnuts, he would have five (sixths) too many...

At the going rate of $1 for 5 and 1/6 chestnuts, the shopper should receive 310 (60*(5+1/6)) chestnuts for his $60.
  Posted by Popstar Dave on 2004-01-06 01:38:42
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