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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

As this is a Beta we only have a limited number of papers and quizzes listed. If you think your favourite Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle should be listed here don’t hesitate to contact us.

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paddywoo | 13:36 Mon 22nd Nov 2004 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Can anyone help me try to remember a quiz style question i heard a while back,? It something to do with three people paying for food in a restaurant, and it ends with the question:- where did the extra pound come from?

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It goes like this:

Three farmers went to town for a meal. They all chose the menu of the day, which cost ten pounds. After the meal they each paid the waitress 10 pounds. Back in the kitchen, the owner told her that the total price was only 25 pounds. Before the waitress went back to the farmers, she put 2 pounds in her own pocket. She explained that they had paid too much and refunded each farmer 1 pound. Happily, everything turned out fine, because each farmer had paid 10 minus 1, i.e. nine pounds. Three times nine plus the two pounds in the waitress's pocket makes exactly 29 pounds. Where did the last pound go?

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This is the wrong calculation. The 2 pounds should be subtracted, not added tp the 27, to get 25 pounds.

Put another way, the men paid 27 pounds (3 times 9), of which 25 has gone to the owner and 2 to the waitress.

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