A homeless man collects cigarette butts from which he makes whole cigarettes. One day he collects 64 butts. Assuming he smokes all the cigarettes he made how many cigarettes did he smoke?[/quote]
I think you at least need to tell us how many butts it takes to make a whole cigarette.[/quote]
My reasoning is that if, say, he needs four butts to make one cigarette, then 64 butts becomes 16 cigarettes, which become 16 butts when he smokes them, which then become four cigarettes, which become four butts when he smokes those, which become one final cigarette, which he smokes down to a butt which he will have to save till tomorrow (if he lives that long). Therefore, that day, he smoked 16 + 4 + 1 cigarettes for a total of 21.[/quote]
oooops... sorry folks... left out that little bit.[quote="ender516"][quote="ender516"][quote="trinicardinal"]I guess its more than 24 hours now...
ender516 has the correct reasoning so ... your turn
