Have a think on this...

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

A man goes into a shoe shop to buy a twelve pound pair of shoes and hands the cashier a twenty-pound note. The cashier doesnt have any change, so goes next door to the restaurant and changes it for twenty one-pound coins. He then gives the customer his change.

Later, the restaurant owner comes into the shop and says "this twenty is counterfeit". The shop cashier apologises, takes the counterfeit twenty back and gives the restaurant owner two tens.

Excluding the cost of the shoes, how much money is the shop down?

First person with the correct answer gets a second hand spark plug....

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

we dont know the profit they make on the pair of shoes do we ?????

Site Subscriber Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 2317

Has somthing to do with weight....12 pounds ....in weight..can't think of it though

Level 6 User Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 127

Â£21

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

well reading the story again this fecker buying the shoes ,if he can go as cheeky as carrying dodgy money ,he might as well have emptied the feckin cashier and may be more before he left the shoe shop Wink

dont waste our precious time neal Evil or Very Mad

i told you many times that i hate being disturbed while studying rocket science Mad

Site Subscriber Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Posts: 728

My brain has just fried up !

This sounds like a question I got in my Maths exam. My answer was something like........
BOLLOCKS GIVE ME AN "F"

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Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

20 quid

the spark plug to the usual address please

Site Subscriber Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 2317

20 quid...becuase?

Level 10 User Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 621

Â£32 because they've no longer got the Â£12 shoes and they've given the shop next door Â£20!

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

Â£28, because Â£8 to the guy who brought the shoes, and Â£20 to the restaurant.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

none of you are right so far.

And its not a trick question. Nothing to do with weight etc

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Lindsey wrote:

Â£32 because they've no longer got the Â£12 shoes and they've given the shop next door Â£20!

I said not counting the shoes...

Site Subscriber Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Posts: 728

It's Â£12

...........I think LOL

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:06 am

Â£8

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

i say Â£8 as well.

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:53 am

Well I said it first Laughing

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

thats only cos you read it first Wink

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

i stick with 20 even though neal says its wrong

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

Â£40

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

its not so feckin complicated now is it Question

he gave he took 20quid from the restaurant and gave it back for nothing and if the cost of the shoes dont count ,than he lost 20 quid unless you are gonna be bending words after all

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

i still say 8