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Another Easy Puzzle. With buses.

I walk to the bus stop and wait there. After five minutes a bus arrives. How many buses per hour do you think go past the bus stop?

posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:41 PM by RobMiles

# @ Friday, August 27, 2004 6:51 PM

Ha! Does this mean I've got you all (or are you just ignoring me). I see it thus: If it takes 5 minutes for the bus to arrive I must take that as the average waiting time, i.e. sometimes I will not have to wait at all, and some times I'll have to wait twice as long (i.e. 10 minutes). This means that the busses are every 10 minutes - therefore there are six per hour. But of course in real life three would turn up together.....

RobMiles

# @ Friday, August 27, 2004 7:58 PM

I thought that the logical answer was six buses but at the same time perhaps you knew what time the only bus would arrive that hour and got there a few minutes early.

AlfredTwo


 
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