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Buying Chestnuts (Posted on 2004-01-05)

(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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explanation to puzzle answer

Comment 20 of 20 |

(In reply to answer by K Sengupta)

The shopper wanted a sixth of a chestnut "more", than what he received.

If the shopper gave him 6 chestnuts, then he would have received:

1 5

6 - 5--- = ---- (five) chestnuts more.

6 6

1 31

Accordingly , the cost of 5 --- = ---- chestnuts was 1 dollar.

6 6

Consequently, for three 20-dollar bills or 60 dollars, he would have gotten:

(31/6)*60 = 310 chestnuts.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-07-25 00:56:41

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