Professor toythatkills and the Stumped Forum

[Mayhem]

Actually I have to agree, I can't find a solution for any configuration that matches 30%, but I can for 33%. I've taken the question to be that the feet become inches and added onto the inches he specified already in the quote (so 8ft 10in became 18in).

Using that I can get answer of

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2 foot 9 inches... which is a total of 33 inches. Making the feet as inches gives a total of 11 inches, which a third of the quote

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[Malc]

Ignore.

[toythatkills]

It is 30&#37;. Though having checked the books answer it's about 30.5% in actual fact.

EDIT: Working 'til 9pm now!

[Mayhem]

I'm still not even 100&#37; certain on the phrasing of the question to work it out, so I'm gonna give up and await the answer, cos there's no point hammering further along the path sadly...

[abigsmurf]

Can't get this, closest I've got is

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2'8" being given and 8'2" being ordered

[Nijo]

Exactly 30&#37;:

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He ordered 9ft 2 and received 2 ft 9

[Mayhem]

That's true for that substitution, but that's not exactly how the question is worded. It never says the inches become feet; if that IS how it should be, then the question needed amending.

[Nijo]

That's true for that substitution, but that's not exactly how the question is worded. It never says the inches become feet; if that IS how it should be, then the question needed amending.

You said:
"I've taken the question to be that the feet become inches and added onto the inches he specified already in the quote (so 8ft 10in became 18in). "

That only works with... 7ft 26in. Not convinced.

[Nijo]

May I post one? This is hard... 3 stars?

Find the smallest number (positive whole number) ending in 6 which, if you remove the 6 and put it on the front, is 4 times bigger than the original number.

Example: 126 becomes 612, except that's not 4 times bigger.

I have an answer: pretty sure it's the smallest but it might not be.
Points awarded if you match or beat mine.

[toythatkills]

Exactly 30%:

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He ordered 9ft 2 and received 2 ft 9

Winnar!

Nijo's puzzle is the next'un.

[xist]

Nijo's has got to be worth more than 3 surely...unless you cheat (or i'm being dense) it's hard!

[toythatkills]

There's quite a lot you can do with it to narrow down the options quite a lot if you think logically about it.

[xist]

Damn logic....guessing and luck for the win!

[Mayhem]

I've got a solution... hopefully the lowest number:

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153846

I was able to figure out some of the digits immediately, the only question in my mind after that was how long the number was going to be:

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If the original number ends in 6 and the new number is 4 times larger, it means the new end digit has to be a 4. If the new overall number begins in 6, then the first two digits of the original number have to be 15, 16 or 17. And so on. Restricted the search a fair bit.

[Nijo]

Yep, that's the number I've got.
Thought my solution was a bit more complicated...

3 points to Mayhem!