Curiosidades: quebra-cabeças

Portal do Prof. Fernando Buarque, DIC, PhD

Como é possível?

Que símbolo é 1, 2, 3 e 6?    (a resposta)

Você está próximo a um poço e precisa coletar exatamente 1 litro de água. Porém você somente possui duas latas com 5 e 3 litros. Como você pode resolver este problema?

Encha a lata de 3 litros, depois verta na de 5, repita a ação e o que sobrar tem exatamente 1 litro. (resposta ao lado)

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance.  So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room.  A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5.  He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in.  The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends.  He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day!  Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night.  We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent.  Where did the other dollar go????

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