This will make you think!

[AsFastAsYou]

You see a shirt for £97 pound,
You don't have the money so you borrow £50 Off your mum, And £50 off your Dad. You pay for the shirt, and give £1 back to your Mum & a Pound back to your Dad. You keep the other Pound, So now you owe them £49 each.
£49+£49=£98... You kept a pound, where does the other pound come from?!

It got me confused...

[Circadia]

does it have something to do with your weight? Like you add on a pound in weight i dunno

[Neversoft]

I wouldn't pay £97 for a shirt.

[Circadia]

There is no missing pound.

You've already paid back 1 pound each to your parents so the total debt should only add up to 98, and it does.

You owe your mum £49 and your dad £49 and you have 1 pound + a shirt.

The '+ your £1' bit is the part in there to confuse you.

[Mr-Trainor]

Lol confused me at first! This should make it seem less confusing :P:
+100 (50 from mum, 50 from dad)-97 (for the shirt)
-1 (you keep)
-1 (to mum)
-1 (to dad)
= 0 left :P.

[Neversoft]

Lol confused me at first! This should make it seem less confusing :P:
+100 (50 from mum, 50 from dad)-97 (for the shirt)
-1 (you keep)
-1 (to mum)
-1 (to dad)
= 0 left :P.

That's not the point, though. You owe your parents £49 each after giving them both £1 back, which is £98 altogether and the £1 you kept brings that to £99, hence the 'missing' pound.

[Mr-Trainor]

That's not the point, though. You owe your parents £49 each after giving them both £1 back, which is £98 altogether and the £1 you kept brings that to £99, hence the 'missing' pound.
You've confused me again :P.

You borrowed £100. You paid £2 back, which means you now owe £98. The £97 t shirt and the £1 you kept also adds up to £98.

[Chippiewill]

Yeah, the mistake here is trying to add the two £49 and the £1 together to make £100 when you're actually taking £1 away from the two £49 to make £97

[Blinger]

It's called interest.

[Cerys]

Owe: 100 Spent: 97 3pound left. Give your mum 1pound Dad one pound. You keep a pound.

theygiveyou 98, you spend 97 and keep 1. Balences out

[jasey]

This kind of riddle has been around for a long time in different forms. I won't post the solution again as people have already figured it out but it is quite a brain worker for those who are hearing it for the first time. Thank you for posting it!

[dbgtz]

This kind of riddle has been around for a long time in different forms. I won't post the solution again as people have already figured it out but it is quite a brain worker for those who are hearing it for the first time. Thank you for posting it!

It's not a riddle, it's primary school maths.

[jasey]

It's not a riddle, it's primary school maths.

Being like that is not necessary. If it was so elementary, then people wouldn't be confused about it. The wording makes it a riddle.

[MKR&*42]

You see a shirt for £97 pound,
You don't have the money so you borrow £50 Off your mum, And £50 off your Dad. You pay for the shirt, and give £1 back to your Mum & a Pound back to your Dad. You keep the other Pound, So now you owe them £49 each.
£49+£49=£98... You kept a pound, where does the other pound come from?!

It got me confused...

Lol your maths and logic is completely wrong.

"You don't have the money so you borrow £50 Off your mum, And £50 off your Dad" = £100.
"Shirt" = £97
£100 -£97 = £3 change

"Give £1 back to your Mum & a Pound back to your Dad" = £2 > £1 change left.

You keep the other Pound = £1 > £0 change left. You've spent it all.. nothing has gone missing.

So now you owe them £49 each. = This is completely flawed logic, why would you owe them £49 each after you have paid them back £50 each?

This isn't a riddle - it's a simple question... :S

[dbgtz]

Being like that is not necessary. If it was so elementary, then people wouldn't be confused about it. The wording makes it a riddle.

Be like what? That's essentially what it is. In this case if you (well I can understand if you'd have troubles reading the English one) can't understand the wording, then it's just badly written as riddles make sense grammatically, just the answer may be hard to get to as it incorporates devices such as puns.

[Mr-Trainor]

So now you owe them £49 each. = This is completely flawed logic, why would you owe them £49 each after you have paid them back £50 each?


You owe them £49 each after paying them back £1 each :P.

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It's not a riddle, it's primary school maths.
The way it has been written is what makes it a riddle imo.

[MKR&*42]

You owe them £49 each after paying them back £1 each :P.

I feel like such an idiot now, I completely read that wrong lmfao. Ok here is it how it works then;

Wait what, I can't work it out myself.

"You don't have the money so you borrow £50 Off your mum, And £50 off your Dad" = £100.
"Shirt" = £97
£100 -£97 = £3 change

"Give £1 back to your Mum & a Pound back to your Dad" = £2

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Ok wow, try #3:

"Give £1 back to your Mum & a Pound back to your Dad" = £2

You owe them £49 each yes = £98 + £2 = £100. The person decides what they do with the other £ change, it can go into the refund to your parents or they can keep it.

K I think that's it lmfao.

[Mr-Trainor]

I feel like such an idiot now, I completely read that wrong lmfao. Ok here is it how it works then;

Wait what, I can't work it out myself.

"You don't have the money so you borrow £50 Off your mum, And £50 off your Dad" = £100.
"Shirt" = £97
£100 -£97 = £3 change

"Give £1 back to your Mum & a Pound back to your Dad" = £2

---

Ok wow, try #3:

"Give £1 back to your Mum & a Pound back to your Dad" = £2

You owe them £49 each yes = £98 + £2 = £100. The person decides what they do with the other £ change, it can go into the refund to your parents or they can keep it.

K I think that's it lmfao.
You Receive £3 change from purchasing the shirt. £2 goes to your parents combined, so then there is £1 left for you :):P.

[MKR&*42]

[@]@Mr-Trainor[/@] - Problem solved lmfao. That was 10 mins of confusion ;[

[dbgtz]

You owe them £49 each after paying them back £1 each :P.

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The way it has been written is what makes it a riddle imo.

OMG here's another one:

Martha sells jars of jam at a farmers’ market.
She has 80 jars to sell at £3 each.
She sells 50 jars and then reduces the price by 40%.
Martha then sells the remaining jars at the reduced price.
It costs her £95 to make the jars of jam.
Her target is to make a profit of at least £100.
Does she meet her target?

-.-

[Jordy]

OMG here's another one:

Martha sells jars of jam at a farmers’ market.
She has 80 jars to sell at £3 each.
She sells 50 jars and then reduces the price by 40%.
Martha then sells the remaining jars at the reduced price.
It costs her £95 to make the jars of jam.
Her target is to make a profit of at least £100.
Does she meet her target?

-.-Seems comparably easier unless I've read it incorrectly.

50 jars sold at £3 = £150
30 jars sold at £1.80 = £54

£150 + £54 = £204 raised from Sales
£95 to produce the jars means a profit of £204 - £95 = £109, a profit of at least £100 :)

[dbgtz]

Seems comparably easier unless I've read it incorrectly.

50 jars sold at £3 = £150
30 jars sold at £1.80 = £54

£150 + £54 = £204 raised from Sales
£95 to produce the jars means a profit of £204 - £95 = £109, a profit of at least £100 :)

I just took it from a GCSE exam paper to show how the first one is just maths.

[Richie]

Did you buy that shirt in Ireland? Because there is some amount of tax on that shirt.

[Conspiracy.]

My brain hurts :(

Edit: No. I get it. I think.... I don't know D:

[JennaDoll]

I was never good at math, I'm not even gonna try lol.

[wiktoria]

xD this really got me thinking xD

[Vause]

I really don't understand this, at all. I'm normally good at stuff like this but this just made me go... oh. Lmao.