Scottish Voice Show #630
May 12, 2012
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May 12, 2012
Producer/Host: Janet Stubbert
Technical Producer Co-Host: Mark Korman
Topics:
Mother’s Day – Anna Jarvis and activist Julia Ward Howe
Clip: Prince Charles / Radio Announcer
Fred Denny, Coastal Radio CJCB,Glace Bay, C. B. / Tanks Ma Bye
Brain Teaser;
I have only nickels, dimes and quarters and have at least one of each type of coin. The total number of coins I have is fifteen and the total value of all the coins is $1.00. How many of each coin do I have? (see ANSWER below)
Music:
1 Eileen Donaghy/ Best of Irish Love Songs/Mother’s Love Is a Blessing
2 Natalie MacMaster/In My Hands/Gramma: /Frank’s Reel
3 Pub Singers/Pure Irish [St. Clair]/ Mother Machree
4 Grit Laskin/Unabashedly Folk: Songs and Tunes 1979-1985 /The Life of A New Mother
5 The McCalmans/Scotland: The Music and Song /Mothers, Daughters, Wives
6 Mairi Rankin/ First Hand/ The F Set
7 Calum, An Cliath Clis/I arose early one May Morning
8 Mary Sarah Rankin Stubbert
9 Susan, An Cliath Clis/O My Darling
10 Howie MacDonald/ the dance last night/ square set second fig. jigs
11 Fred Denny, Coastal Radio, CB/ Tanks Ma bye
12 Mac Morin/ A jigs
13 Old Scots Mother Mine/
14 Kendra MacGillivray/ Strachan’s, George’s Delight, Mrs. J. Forbes, Johnnie Sullivan’s, Hot Fingers
Brain Teaser/Garry A. Gruber, PHD
Answer: Thirteen nickels, one dime, and one quarter.
The cleverest way to solve the problem is to try to reduce the number of possibilities to a minimum and then figure out all of those possibilities. The highest number of quarters I can have is three, since if I have ayt least one of every coin, I can’t have four quarters, I am left with fourteen dimes/nickels, which must add up to 25 cents. That’s impossible, so suppose I have two quarters. That leaves 50 cents for the dimes/nickels. I can’t get fourteen dimes/nickels that add up to 50 cents. So try one quarter. I have 75 cents left. I can get thirteen nickels and one dime to total 75 cents.
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