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Car Talk Puzzler Brainteaser?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
car talk
jtabbsvt asked:


I’m trying to gather some information based on how people answer this question.

Note: I already know the correct answer. I am asking because I’m curious to see how others answer.

Please provide your answer (and a brief explanation as appropriate), highest level of education, and field of study.

“In a family, each daughter has the same number of brothers and sisters. Each son has twice as many sisters as brothers. How many brothers and sisters are in the family?”
Also, please post your own thoughts. I am not interested in hearing the answers of people who go to the Car Talk website and look up the answer.

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really old car talk riddler. “a thousand dollars”?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
car talk
kt asked:


im going to hand you 1,000 dollars in 1 dollar bills. your job is to put some of those dollar bills into envelopes in such a manner that no matter what number of dollars i ask you for you’ll hand me the appropriate combination of envelopes. what is the fewest number of envelopes and how much money is in each one?
*the answer isn’t 1000 envelopes.

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