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It makes much more sense that the twins would rely on such a loophole to prevent incarceration.

"Does it mean that if I have a siamese twin, I can commit any crime I want?"

Exactly. It cannot be simply applied as such.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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That's just horrible! That means I can be robed, violated and killed by one of a siamese twins in the middle of a park ona sunday afternoon, and the cops will just look at it?

I think it's impossible to commit such crimes unless the other brother/sister helped, so both would be guilty.
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I would have thought that the second of the siamese twins would be guilty of aiding and abetting since he didn't exactly stop the other half. It's not as though he doesn't have some control over what they do as a whole.
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I think this just goes to show that, as a mental exercise in lateral thinking, the answer makes sense. When applied to real life, however, there are definite problems.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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Originally posted by: Warbler
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
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Yes, and see above. I just realized I worded the question incorrectly.


Wording that made it an entirely different question


I don't get it.


You didn't see the way it was worded before.
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A family has newly moved into the area. A neighbor asks the parents how old their three girls are. The father answers that the product of their ages is 36 and, pointing to his car, adds that the sum of their ages equals the first two digits in his license plate number. After a short struggle with pen and paper the neighbor says he needs more information. He is then told that the oldest daughter loves strawberry ice cream. "Oh, now I understand," says the neighbor, who promptly comes up with the right answer. What are the ages of the three children?
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9, 2, 2
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Yep, next one to you.
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A professor tells her assistant that she dined with three people last night. She also tells him that the sum of the three people's ages is twice the secretary's own age and that the product of the three people's ages is 2,450. Then, she asks him to tell her the ages of the three people. After a while, the assistant tells the professor that he doesn't have enough information to solve the problem. She agrees and adds that she is older than all three people with whom she dined. The assistant, who knows her age, promptly gives the professor the correct ages. The question is: What are the ages of all five people in this story?
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Hey, you searched google for my riddle and took that one from the same site. Cheater
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OK Bossk so that you don't look like a cheater, I demand that you post how did you get to that solution...
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"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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A family has newly moved into the area. A neighbor asks the parents how old their three girls are. The father answers that the product of their ages is 36 and, pointing to his car, adds that the sum of their ages equals the first two digits in his license plate number. After a short struggle with pen and paper the neighbor says he needs more information. He is then told that the oldest daughter loves strawberry ice cream. "Oh, now I understand," says the neighbor, who promptly comes up with the right answer. What are the ages of the three children?


why counldn't the answer to this one be '6,3,2'?
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Wait wait, what was the end of that sentence? "It's because he is an..." one-half? an siamese twin? How were we supposed to finish that sentence?

Wait wait again, I went back and read the sentence stem. It's cool, it's cool.
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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.
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So, in order to get it right, you needed to know that a license plate starts with 13? So anyone outside the US can't answer it...

And about the 36, 1, 1 not being the "possible" answer: kinda hard for someone 36 years old to have a one year old brother... Unles his/hers mother was 7 (the world record) when he/she was born, and 42 (not the world record but impressive) when the later twins were born.
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"Wait wait, what was the end of that sentence? "It's because he is an..." one-half?"

an innocent man.

"And about the 36, 1, 1 not being the "possible" answer: kinda hard for someone 36 years old to have a one year old brother..."

As with the siamese twin question, the answer isn't always applicable to real life. It's just a mental exercise. Besides, the 80-year old Romanian woman who recently had a baby would have been in a condition to have a 36-year span between siblings.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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So, in order to get it right, you needed to know that a license plate starts with 13? So anyone outside the US can't answer it...

And about the 36, 1, 1 not being the "possible" answer: kinda hard for someone 36 years old to have a one year old brother... Unles his/hers mother was 7 (the world record) when he/she was born, and 42 (not the world record but impressive) when the later twins were born.


Are there no other countries that use numbers in a license plate?

As for the age in 36,1,1, think about remarriage. I had a friend when I was 11 whose eldest brother was in his 40s. Because his dad was remarried. Same dad, different mom. His dad was in his 60s when he was born.
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So, in order to get it right, you needed to know that a license plate starts with 13? So anyone outside the US can't answer it...

And about the 36, 1, 1 not being the "possible" answer: kinda hard for someone 36 years old to have a one year old brother... Unles his/hers mother was 7 (the world record) when he/she was born, and 42 (not the world record but impressive) when the later twins were born.


Are there no other countries that use numbers in a license plate?

As for the age in 36,1,1, think about remarriage. I had a friend when I was 11 whose eldest brother was in his 40s. Because his dad was remarried. Same dad, different mom. His dad was in his 60s when he was born.


Hello, and welcome to "Divorce Math 101". I'll be your teacher, I'm professor Kramer, and you'll learn here equations that always end up with small kids suffering and the lawyers taking it all.
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Sorry for questioning your integrity Bossk.
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I would've done the same to you, you untrusting bastage
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What is a bastage?
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You've never seen Johnny Dangerously.
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"So, in order to get it right, you needed to know that a license plate starts with 13? So anyone outside the US can't answer it..."

"Are there no other countries that use numbers in a license plate?"

That's not what was meant. As far as I know, there's nothing limiting a US license plate to only having the number 13 at the beginning. Your mileage may vary.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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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