10 May 2013

This trip’s puzzle

Long coast to coast flight now 🙁 Here is something to keep you busy as I take a nap 🙂
Once again, send me personal message on FB if you have the answer – not in the Comments section.

Last week was my elder daughter (Natasha)’s fifteenth birthday. She had a bunch of school friends over for dinner and sleepover. The shrill decibel levels with a dozen teenagers at our house was enough for the dog to sleep most of the time outside our house 🙂 But I digress. One of her friend’s mom has a cupcake business and we were glad to give her some business. Her standard packagings were 6 cupcakes to a packet, 9 cupcakes to a packet and 20 cupcakes to a packet. We ordered 60 and she delivered 3 packets of 20 each.

Which leads me to my question – what is the maximum number of cupcakes we could have ordered that she would not have been able to fit neatly in her packets? (e.g. 17 cupcakes would be impossible to neatly fit in her packets – there will be some leftovers. I am looking for the highest number that would not fit in her 6/9/20 packet combinations)

10 May 2013

Al Gore

“According to Forbes magazine, Al Gore is now worth more than $200 million. This is what Gore meant when he talked about going green.” –Jay Leno
By the way, Gore, in real life is a very funny (and self-deprecating) guy. There is an interview of him by Peter Segal (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me) that is outrageously funny. If you wish to hear it check out the Apr 20th podcast.
My favorite – Al Gore claims that he is so stiff and boring that the codename (when he was VP) given by Secret Service was …….. “Al Gore” 🙂