As they say, beggars can't be choosers, in fact begger take what they can get. A begger on the street can make one cigarette out of every 6 cigarette butts he finds. After one whole day of searching and checking public ashtrays the begger finds a total of 72 cigarette butts. How many cigarettes can he make and smoke from the butts he found?

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mathmale · Answer

One way of solving this problem would be to use ratios.

6 butts                   72 butts
-----------  =  --------------
 1 cigarette           ? cigarettes

brainzonly · Answer

Ah huh.

My internet is sooooooooooooo slow I might not respond for a while. (I should name my internet connection SnailNet XD)

brainzonly · Answer

I think it's $$6=\frac{ 72 }{ x }$$

mathmale · Answer

Explain how you could solve for x and then check that result.

irishboy123 · Answer

that's not quite right IMHO

he make make some more smokes from the x smokes he makes from the orig 72 butts

brainzonly · Answer

yay, snailnet finally got me here!!! 
anyway... multiply 72 to both sides.. 400 something O.O No way.

kevin · Answer

So it will become
$$\frac{ 6 }{ 1 } = \frac{ 72 }{ x }$$
then
$$x = \frac{ 72 \times 1 }{ 6 }$$

mathmale · Answer

Can't $$x = \frac{ 72 \times 1 }{ 6 }$$be simplified?

brainzonly · Answer

O MY GOD!!! I'M SO STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at it again. THIS PROBLEM IS TRICKING YOUR BRAIN INTO THINKING THAT THE PROCESS IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN IT IS!!!!!!

If the begger can make a whole cigarette from 6 butts then he can make 12 cigarettes from the 72 he found. Once he smokes those, he then will have another 12 butts, which gives him enough to make another 2 cigarettes. A total of 14.
LOL!!!!

brainzonly · Answer

Party over XD I love brain teasers!!! :DDDD

kevin · Answer

you can divide the numerator with the denominator :D

brainzonly · Answer

72/6 equals 12...

kevin · Answer

Party over..... :o
Oh my god :(

kevin · Answer

That's it :D 
12

brainzonly · Answer

and then he makes 2 more smokes out of that 12/6=2 so 12+2 equals 14 :DDDDDD

kevin · Answer

Then he will get cancer :D

brainzonly · Answer

@Kevin WRONG!!!! This entire problem is gauged to trick you


XD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cancer LOL

brainzonly · Answer

ready for the next 1? this one's even better :DD

brainzonly · Answer

?

kevin · Answer

Alright, that will be the last one because I'm going to sleep after this :D

kevin · Answer

Never mind my word before :p