Modified+Problems+MTH420

THE HEISENBERG

In the teachers lounge for lunch Yebbie Yellow, Bruno Brown, and Walter White greet each other. Between the three of them their shirt colors are yellow, brown, and white. Yebbie says, "Hey, did you notice we are all wearing colored shirts different from our last names?"

The one wearing the brown shirt says, "Wow, Yebbie, that's right!"

Can you tell who is wearing what color shirt? -- [UNNAMED_01]

Tom, Mark, James and Sarah have different favorite colors. The colors include: Orange, Yellow, Crimson, and lavender. Find out everyone's favorite color 1) Sarah's favorite color does not have a "n" in it 2) Mark's favorite color has 8 letters in it. 3) Tom's favorite color is not a dark color. 4) Sarah and Tom have no matching letters in their favorite colors --- [UNNAMED_02]

A lady being asked her age by an impertinent young spark, gave the following reply: If to my age there added be;

One half, one third and three times three

Six score and ten the sum you’d see

Now pray tell what my age may be? --- [UNNAMED_03]

How many different combinations of U.S. coins can Daniel use to make 16 cents?

(( By adding, without using any coin twice, I could not find an answer on Google. ))

[UNNAMED_04] Short Problem Rewritten: A store sells eggs in packages of 12. One egg costs $2.00. A customer buys eggs for a total of $360. How many packages of eggs did the customer buy? Original Problem: Each package of eggs contains 17 eggs. One egg costs $4.00. How much do 45 eggs cost? - Original Problem: Five Gallons You are mixing cement and the recipe calls for five gallons of water. You have a garden hose giving you all the water you need. The problem is that you only have a four gallon bucket and a seven gallon bucket and neither has graduation marks. Find a method to measure five gallons.

Reworded Problem: Milkman You are a milkman and need to measure exactly two gallons of milk without wasting any. You only have a five gallon jug and an eight gallon jug without graduation marks on either. Find a method to measure exactly two gallons of milk.

[UNNAMED_05] One of the five members of a company's board of directors was suspected of sleeping during a board meeting. It was known that only one board member had actually slept, but no one (except the five members) knew who it was. The company vice president questioned the members and they made the following statements: Davis: The snoozer was either Rawls or Charlton Rawls: Neither Vongy nor I was asleep. Charlton: Both Rawls and Davis are lying. Bobbins: Only one of the Rawls or Davis is telling the truth. Vongy: Bobbins is a liar. When the board chairperson (she was not questioned) was consulted, she said that three of the board members always tell the truth and two of them always lie. Who slept in the meeting?

[UNNAMED_06]

Here is the problem I changed: Four pumpkins and two gourds weigh 36 pounds. Five pumpkins and three gourds weigh 48 pounds. All of the pumpkins weigh the same and all of the gourds weigh the same. What is the weight of three pumpkins and one gourd? - [UNNAMED_07]

"You have three boxes of fruit. One contains just apples, one contains just oranges, and one contains a mixture of both. Each box is labeled -- one says "apples," one says "oranges," and one says "apples and oranges." However, it is known that none of the boxes are labeled correctly. How can you label the boxes correctly if you are only allowed to take and look at just one piece of fruit from just one of the boxes?"

This is a fairly simple problem to modify because anything could be put in the boxes instead of fruit. Pennies and nickels, pencils and pens, milk and dark chocolate.

I am working now on modifying it to four boxes, maybe one with none? I wonder if it is possible to solve with more than just 3 boxes. With the way that I solved it, it seems as though there would be multiple possibilities in the end and not one answer. Maybe draw from two boxes?