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Question: a curious man walks into a bar, orders a club soda, and chats cheerily with the server, an older gentleman. after an half hour of playful banter, he learns that the older gentleman has three kids. "how old are your children ? the curious man asks. well' the product of their ages is 72. the curios man thinks for a moment and says thats not enough information. all right, continues the older man, "if you go outside and look at the building number posted over the door to the bar, you'll see the sum of their ages. the man steps outside and looks at the buildingnumber posted over the door to the bar, you'll se the sum of their ages." "still not enough the man replies. the older man says that his youngest loves key lime pie."

IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE KINDA OF LIKE A MATH PROBLEM THE ANSWER IS A NUMBER
PLEASE HELP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

THANKS
I THINK KEY LIME PIE IS SUPPOSED TO MEAN SOMETHING


Answers: a curious man walks into a bar, orders a club soda, and chats cheerily with the server, an older gentleman. after an half hour of playful banter, he learns that the older gentleman has three kids. "how old are your children ? the curious man asks. well' the product of their ages is 72. the curios man thinks for a moment and says thats not enough information. all right, continues the older man, "if you go outside and look at the building number posted over the door to the bar, you'll see the sum of their ages. the man steps outside and looks at the buildingnumber posted over the door to the bar, you'll se the sum of their ages." "still not enough the man replies. the older man says that his youngest loves key lime pie."

IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE KINDA OF LIKE A MATH PROBLEM THE ANSWER IS A NUMBER
PLEASE HELP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

THANKS
I THINK KEY LIME PIE IS SUPPOSED TO MEAN SOMETHING

First factorize 72 to give you 2,2,2,3,3 you are now in a postion to work out all the possible ages of the kids. You should allow for a chiled aged 1 and all possible combinations, however unlikely. At the same time work out the sums of each of the possible three ages. you should arrive at this table.
1 1 72 74
1 2 36 39
1 3 24 28
1 4 18 23
1 6 12 19
1 8 9 18
2 2 18 22
2 3 12 17
2 4 9 15
2 6 6 14
3 3 8 14
3 4 6 13
Thats the hard work done. Now comes the sneaky bit.The bartender is told that the sum of all ages is on the front door of the bar. He replies That is not enough information! Now , the bartender will know what this number is (even if we dont) so we look at our table for two sets of three ages with the same sum. There is only one such pair.
2 6 6 14
3 3 8 14
The only piece of information is that the youngest son. This excludes the twins aged 3 with elder child aged 8 option. So, the ages of the 3 children are 2, 6 and 6. (And the number on the door is 14.)
Work it out and it should be correct. I hope! :)

Sorry i checked google but it doesnt work im so sorry!!!

i always sucked at math , srry dude

erm....
i think itz 3, 4 and 6?
if theres twins (lol), then i guess it'd be 2, 6 and 6, or 3, 8 and 8?

im nt really sure.........
i hope i helped tho

(im 13! so..yeah)
:)

hey if all thrree are born in a same year there age may be 24 as 72/3=24 or add the value of building number and subtract value of lime pie i mean like b=2

Sry math is hard

I'll try for what it's worth because this one will have me stumped all day.

The 'product' (72) is from multiplication and the 'sum' is from addition, so the possible combinations are:

Ages................Sum
24 3 1............28
9 8 1..............18
8 3 3..............14
12 6 1............19
9 4 2..............15
18 2 1............21
6 6 2..............14
12 3 2............17
36 2 1............39
6 4 3..............13

The numerical equivalent of 'pi' is 3.14159 (which would be an 'English'-based rather than mathematical part to the problem), so if we called the youngest 3 years old, it is conceivable that his kids are 6, 4 and 3 and the building is number 13 OR his kids are 8, 3 and 3 with the building being number 14.

(Using the pi theory, it could explain why the child's age was given in decimals because one is older than the other.)

It's a try...

I assume the answer is 3, 4 and 6. Since the product is 72.. 3,4 and 6 seems to be more appropriate. And further more according to the number of letters, key=3, lime=4 and pie=3. 3*4*3 gives 36. So assuming that there isn't any twins, im gonna multiply one of the 3's by two. which will give me 3, 4 and 6. Thats how i got my answer. Don't know if it's right tho. All the best!



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