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Originally posted by: Bossk
Warbler, the reason why the answer couldn't be 6,3,2 is inherent in the fact that the neighbor asked for "more information". This means that the neighbor needed to weigh out between two answers that were effectively the same. Technically, any of the following could have been an answer...
36,1,1
18,2,1
9,4,1
9,2,2
6,6,1
6,3,2
4,3,3
All of these are possible because they can be multiplied together to get 36, right?
Rule out 36,1,1 because, ideally, a 36 year old daughter would not be living at home... ideally.
All of the rest of the answers, when added together, come up with distinct solutions except for two of them (38, 21, 14, 13, 13, 11, and 10, respectively). 9,2,2 and 6,6,1 both add together to come up with 13. 13 is the first two numbers on the license plate apparently and, therefore, the neighbor needed "more information" to come up with which one was correct since there were two combos that equaled 13. When the neighbor with the daughters said "the oldest daughter..." it implies that there is a single person of greater age than the other two. Therefore, it must be 9,2,2.
For everyone else, I did figure it out but it didn't seem right so I did Google it to check myself. And that is where I got the other riddle.
ahh! I get it now. thanks Bossk
