--------- #1460 - 1770 poker game puzzle
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- It was May 7, 1770 ,3 guys on work break decided to play 3 hands of Poker. It was Doug’s birthday. Dave, Doug and Brenan ante’ up and Dave lost the fist hand losing the same amount as Doug and Brenan had before the game started.
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- Ante’ up, for the second hand Doug loses to Dave and Brenan as much as they had before the hand started.
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-Ante’ up, for the last hand Brennan loses to Dave and Doug as much money as they had before the hand started.
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- Break time ends and each walk away with $24.
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- Who was the winner? How much did each have before the game started?
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- I will email the solution anytime you are ready:
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- This puzzle appeared in a German textbook in 1770. In that year the average life expectancy was to age 32. Here are some of the things happening that year: The Hydraulic sewing machine was invented. Halley discovered the proper motion of stars, later had a comet named after him. Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and later discovered moons orbiting Uranus. the World’s population was 600,000,000, less than twice the U.S. population today. Newton proposed that light was tiny bundles of energy. Mitchell did the math for magnetic induction. Cavendish accurately measures the Gravitational Constant, “ G” , where: Force of Gravity = G * M*m / r^2. Kant proposes that the Sun and the planets came form condensed gas clouds in space. Cook used the transit of Venus across the Sun to calculate the size of the Solar System.
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