Puzzle anyone?
 

Begin with a 10 oz. jar of water and a 10 oz. jar of ink.
Dip out a small ammount, say 1 oz., of ink and pour it into the water.
Don’t stir the water/ink solution.
Or, stir the water/ink solution.
But don't cap and shake violently.
Or, if you do cap and shake violently,
wait for bubbles to disappear before doing the following:
Dip out 1 oz. of the water/ink solution.
Pour it into the ink.

Does the bottle of water contain more ink than the bottle of ink contains water?

Is the ink water based?

Good question.

Imagine a pure liquid carbon ink.
Imagine the water is pure, hydrated H20 powder.
Or distilled water.

Edit: no "trick" question here, no word games, etc.

I'd say it's the same amount.

1 oz ink gets added to 10 oz water, so the water bottle is 10/11ths water. One oz of this is 0.909 water into the ink jar. The water bottle is 1/11 ink, so 10 ounces x 1/11 = 10/11 = 0.909 ink in the water jar.

Just a WAG but the bottle of ink contains less water than the water contains ink.

So... How much ink are we to assume has bonded with the H2O? The bubbles would be evolving gases, AKA ink decomposing....

Witholding acknowledgement of the above posts for the moment, I'll add that you have to prove your answer using two different color marbles.

You can't change the rules midgame! No fair!

For this question, assume none of that applies.

Huh?

Yep. I can prove the correct answer with marbles; only two (and a bunch of words).

But using 6 or 8, or a few more, is easier.

I can get the answer using two marbles..... Using my boot to kick you square in your two marbles until you spit out the answer.... ;)


Sorry, I'm in one of those moods.

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The water is 90.909% water and 9.09% ink
The ink is 90.009% ink and 9.99% water

So the ink contains more water.

Edit: This is assuming a homogenious mixture. If not, no idea what you scoop out.

What is the specific gravity of the ink?

Is there a cool collar around either of the jars?

Is either one on a conveyor belt?

Are you talking about an ounce as mass or volume?

10 Black marbles @ 1 oz. ea. = Ink jar
10 White marbles @ 1 oz ea. = Water Jar

Remove one black marble from Ink Jar and add it to the Water Jar

Water Jar now has 11 marbles @ 10 to 1 ratio (white to black)

Reach in (blind) and remove one random marble (odds are 10 to 1 that it will be a white marble) and put that marble in the Ink Jar.

QUOTE: "Does the bottle of water contain more ink than the bottle of ink contains water"

The Vegas line says: Bet with Mr. Carlton - 9 white one black / 9 black one white ... but people do win the lottery occasionally ..so....) :)

What this transfer of fluids done in the back of a Black Audi Wagon?

If so, then the answer is:
48 angry 911 owners.

-Z

Not a factor here.

Nothing illegal going on here.
Yes or no.

Fluid oz.

Hint:

Is a broken clock ever right?
Yes, once a day.
Good answer - but not good enough.

Mo_G playing with marbles; that's good...and a requirement, don't forget. SmileWavy

If you replace "is" with "could be", then "is" true. :)

I think what he's getting at is that even without a uniform mixture, the amount of water/ink will be the same, even if you can't say what that percentage is.

Say you take 1 ounce of ink and put it in the water, but do not mix it. Then you take 1 ounce out of this mixture, but you have no way of knowing what percentage of that ounce is ink. So, if this ounce has x ounces of ink (some fraction of 1 ounce) then the eyedropper has (1-x) ounces of water. When you add it to the ink, you now have (9+x) ounces of ink and (1-x) ounces of water. (9+x)+(1-x)=10 ounces

So in the water you had 10 ounces, added 1 ounce of ink, then removed x ounces of ink and (1-x) ounces of water. So the amount of water is [10-(1-x)]=(9+x) and the amount of ink is (1-x).

Quote: Hint:

Is a broken clock ever right?
Yes, once a day.
Good answer - but not good enough.
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Well, you stated "No word games" ?

A broken clock is correct TWICE a day (day = 24 hours) unless you are saying once each day - and once each night?


YOUR QUESTION:

"Does the bottle of water contain more ink than the bottle of ink contains water"


MY ANSWER : No

I thought it obvious - even if the 'lottery winner' by chance picked the black marble and replaced it in the Ink Jar - the answer to your posed question remains the same. No.

WINNAH!

And proven using the min. ammt. of marbles necessary! :D

Congrats!

Not if it's digital. So the answer could be zero, one, or two.

Second place winnah!

You'd have tied Mo with a marble proof - unless you used more marbles than he did. SmileWavy

I messed up with a decimal point in my calculation.

They are the same!!

Too bad. Time to pick up your marbles and go home. ;)

Begin with a 10 oz. jar of water and a 10 oz. jar of ink.

blah blah blah

Does the bottle of water contain more ink than the bottle of ink contains water?

you didnt tell us how many ounces of water the bottle has.......... if you tell us how many ounces the bottle has compared to the jar its simple.

Is the ink well sorted out?

Wait, we start with a 10 oz. jar, but you don't actually tell us how much water or ink is in the jars. One could be a 10 oz jar of water that is only 1/4 full!

What the hell does this have to do with snow tires, or a Dillon reloading machine?

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to stir it or not. Or shake violently.

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Why start a new thread-

Smith lives on 13th Ave. which has houses numbered from 13 to 1300.
Jones wants to know the number of Smith's house.

Jones asks: "Is it less than 500?"
Smith answers - but he lies.

Jones asks: "Is it a perfect square?"
Smith answers - but he lies again.

Jones asks: "Is it a perfect cube?"
Smith answers and this time tells the truth.

Jones says: "If I knew whether or not the second figure was '1' - I could tell you the number of the house.

Smith tells him whether or not the second figure is '1' and Jones announces what he thinks is the number of the house.
But he is wrong.

Question : What is the number of Smith's house?