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Cheap Charlie (Posted on 2004-03-12) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Cheap Charlie likes to smoke cigars.
He cannot afford cigars so he puts five stubs (which he finds) together to make one full cigar.

One day Charlie was lucky to get 25 stubs.

How many cigars could he smoke?

For a bonus point; how many cigars could he have smoked if he had only found 20 stubs?

  Submitted by Popstar Dave    
Rating: 1.9167 (12 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
He was able to smoke six.
This is because he found 25 stubs to smoke 5 cigars, then with the five stubs that he just smoked, he was able to make another.

Bonus point.
Technically, he can only smoke 4 cigars. But if you allow Carlie to rely on his friend Tight Toby, he can smoke 5. He smokes the first 4 from his 20 stubs and has 4 stubs remaining. He then finds Toby who lends him one of the stubs he's found today. Charlie uses this stub to make his 4 remaining stubs a viable cigar. He smokes this and returns the left over stub back to Toby. He has now smoked 5 cigars after starting with 20 stubs. Also Tight Toby hasn't lost out at all.

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  Subject Author Date
SolutionSolution To Part II: Second SectionK Sengupta2008-03-28 05:24:37
SolutionSolution To Part II: First SectionK Sengupta2008-03-28 05:22:28
Solution To Part IK Sengupta2008-03-21 13:10:20
answerK Sengupta2007-05-12 13:51:30
last onemacgyver082006-04-26 22:13:44
Some Thoughtsone more testmacgyver082006-04-26 22:13:27
Solutiontesting the comment typesmacgyver082006-04-26 22:13:10
Hints/TipsI don't know about his friendmacgyver082006-04-26 22:12:40
re(2): easySteve Royer2004-03-26 00:02:59
re: easySteve Royer2004-03-25 23:58:16
Solutioneasypaul2004-03-25 22:13:18
SolutionMathy solutionTristan2004-03-14 15:09:17
SolutionSolutione.g.2004-03-12 12:13:56
re: SimpleM. Pianalto2004-03-12 10:28:50
Some ThoughtsSmoking is a vile habit.Charlie2004-03-12 10:15:04
Hints/TipsSimpleSandeep2004-03-12 09:59:26
Some ThoughtsPoor CharlieRoberto Mattos2004-03-12 09:21:21
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