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Don

Here's a fun question for everyone. No calculators until you answer the question and go with your first choice:
If you are offered a job with two different pay choices for the exact same work, which would you take?
1. You get paid $250,000 a month (30 day period)
2. You get paid a penny on the first day and on day 2 it doubles to 2 pennies, day 3 it doubles again to 4 pennies and so on until the 30th day. After that you will get paid a penny again on day 1 of next month and it doubles again until 30th day.

Which payment offer will you take?

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James

Will you be my boss please?

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theblackdragon

that's an old riddle, and given the $5m+ difference between the two amounts, you're better off with the latter option.

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The first option. Since there is no penny you'd be paying me nothing for the 2nd one, regardless of what is actually worth

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2nd, classic riddle.

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_zoipi

A riddle older than peeing standing up. The second one will clearly give you more money, because it's 2^30 pennies. Lots of people dont really see thepower of exponential numbers.

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BenjaminRosa wrote:

A riddle older than peeing standing up. The second one will clearly give you more money, because it's 2^30 pennies. Lots of people dont really see thepower of exponential numbers.

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PuzzleMaster7

It's obviously the second option. How about this for a riddle? A rich person doesn't have a lot of it, a poor person has plently of it, and when you die you take it with you. What is it?

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KodyWB-98 wrote:

It's obviously the second option. How about this for a riddle? A rich person doesn't have a lot of it, a poor person has plently of it, and when you die you take it with you. What is it?

It's nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Try again.

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PuzzleMaster7

@GameLord08 Correct! It wasn't hard, but I was the only one to figure it out in my class without already knowing the answer.

Since everyone knows the answer, the topic should be locked or just become a riddle thread.

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Tasuki

I remember this riddle from grade school. Its the second one cause at the end of the 30th day its like well over a million IIRC.

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AlexSays

I came for the fun part. Where is it?

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Hokori

I choose the first to be doubled everyday for the rest of my life

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Don wrote:

Here's a fun question for everyone.

Maths,fun?

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SilverBaretta

The first option, because otherwise I would punch my boss in the face for giving me a penny for a full days work. I don't care how exponential it gets, I WORKED 12 HOURS ON MY FIRST DAY!!!!

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This was not a fun question you liar. I already knew it.

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Here's a real puzzle for you:

Pay day is a week away. I want beer now. How do I acquire beer?

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Also, if I get paid in pennies, I will dump them on you >:[

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