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Playing baseball, you break a window in your house. The window broke into 100 pieces. You hurriedly pick up 17 and throw them in the garbage. What fraction of the glass is left?
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We don't know. The broken shards of glass could have been of equal size, or different sizes.Hide Answer Show Answer
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YOU CAN'T HAVE A TEASER WITH NO ANSWER!!!
Anyways, the answer could be all or it, since the glass didn't disappear, it was just relocated.
TA! =^.^=
Anyways, the answer could be all or it, since the glass didn't disappear, it was just relocated.
TA! =^.^=
*****of [not or. my bad! ^///^]
oh and one more thing---if you're young enough to play baseball and not be considered the neighborhood pervert, why would you even pick up the glass as opposed to sweeping it? And for that matter, why would he only pick up 17 pieces??? just thinking out loud. no offense meant or anything. ^ ^ bai! [I'm done now]
Your answer makes perfect sense because not enough informtion was provided regarding the sizes of the pieces discarded or left. But, if it were my window broken, I would hope 100% would be picked up!
Maybe he only picked up 17 pieces because the rest were too small, and maybe he swept the rest...or did it say he left them, I forgot... anyway, I was dumb and said 83%. Woudn't most kids just RUN and hide the evidence of the baseball bat?
I just read it again, it didn't say he left the rest....maybe he swept them. So technically the teaser could have a bit of a situation teaser about it and have more than one answer.
Its makes perfect sense, even if he swept them later, we don't have that evidence, thus, the answer is still correct
weird.
I was wierd and put 83 over 100
You could say there were 83/100 pieces left ... don't need to consider the size of each piece, just number. Oh my shattered nerves ... ciao people
Good Teaser! This is the best one I have seen in a long time. I guessed 83/100, then saw that it was in the trick category.
BTW You guys analyse the reason for taking the 17 pieces too much. I wish I would have come up with this one.
BTW You guys analyse the reason for taking the 17 pieces too much. I wish I would have come up with this one.
You could have asked, "What percentage of glass is left?" I liked the teaser though.
I don't think you need to know the size of the peices, either. You only need to know the number of peices. I said 83 hundreths, too. I guess it really depends on how you look at it, though, and that's just the way I looked at it. Good, teaser, though!
I say it is 83 because he picked up 17 of the fractions so that means that there are 83 fractions left, it doesnt matter what size they are. all it asks is how many fractions are left.
I didnt get the answer. I am with every1 that said 83 cause he clearly said it broke into 100 pieces and you quickly pick up 17 and throw them away. This wasnt a good one.
I went with no glass left (...in the window that is...)
Heh...you know, when I break something, I don't typically count the broken pieces, or for that matter, how many pieces I pick up.
But good teaser
But good teaser
I did get the answer on this one and was surprised when it was right!
The question DID say "fraction of the glass" and not "fraction of the pieces of glass", in which case the answer really WOULD be 87/100. Thus, "trick" teaser! Nice one!
The question DID say "fraction of the glass" and not "fraction of the pieces of glass", in which case the answer really WOULD be 87/100. Thus, "trick" teaser! Nice one!
The part I don't get is why are you playing baseball by your house??? You should be playing at someone else's house and break their window... not your own.
Still a good teaser
Still a good teaser
It really does depend on the way you look at it. Being that you gave numbers, you'd think you were talking about 83 shards of glass left in relation to 100 that were originally there. ha ha ha ha. I'm just being a nuisance. I liked it.
At first I was thinking it wasn't a good teaser because there was no answer. But therein lies the *trick*. Nothing said they were equal pieces.
I liked it !!!
This Is WRONG! The 17 shard in the trash were not destroyed! THEY STILL EXIST!
Why are you hyper?
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