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A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50."

The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less.

In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?
 
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PrincessPeach said:
6 is the answer, though Buckguy is correct that your reasoning is wrong.

Buckguy, did you just solve this now, or had you seen this before? I'm curious if anyone else can figure out why the answer is 6, so don't give it away just yet... (I was kinda pissed when someone showed me the solution before I had a chance to solve it.)
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Actually, as Buckguy and I have been discussing via PM, in that I worked a solution of your puzzle in the way that I did, and that way is sensible, and he obviously got the right answer, there are two correct answers, as it turns out. Now, if you added the 4th triangle, we could find out which of our solutions was correct, because - as we have discerened - our ways of solving the problem will yield different resutls on the drawing of the 4th triangle.

So, my reasoning isn't wrong (yet) It's just not the reasoning you were told was the reasoning (Yes?) :biggrin:
 
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