You are given 1000 one dollar bills and 10 envelopes. Put the bills into the envelopes in such a way that someone can ask you for any amount of money from $1 to $1000 and you can give it to them through a combination of the envelopes.
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Bank Balance Missing Dollar
A bank customer had $100 in his account. He then made 6 withdrawals, totaling $100. He kept a record of these withdrawals, and the balance remaining in the account, as follows:
Withdrawal | Balance | |
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50 | 50 | |
25 | 25 | |
10 | 15 | |
8 | 7 | |
5 | 2 | |
2 | 0 | |
Total | 100 | 99 |
When he added up the balance column, there is only $99. Where is the missing dollar?
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Flat Tyre
A man drove all the way from New York to San Francisco only to discover at the end of the trip that he had a flat tyre from the very start. Yet his car was completely unaffected by it? How is this possible?
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