Maths Question for the day!

There were three children who, one morning, heard on the jungle drums that the village Post Office was selling footballs for £3.  Now they had burst their football and started excitedly emptying piggy banks to find the £3.  Boy 2 hasn't saved any money and so has to borrow from Boy 1 and they set out on bikes for the shop.  The Girl has her £1 at the ready.

Now The Girl doesn't trust the jungle drums and takes extra money.  The jungle drums have been wrong before!!  (always!).  When they arrive at the shop, the ball is in fact £5 and The Girl pays the extra.

Now they need to share the cost of the ball evenly.  Who owes who what??

This of course does not happen in real life - just in maths text books :-)


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Stuart McIntyre
Boy 1 owes Girl 67p
Boy 2 owes Girl £1.67
Boys will forget to pay Girl
Girl will never forget and remind them whenever pocket money is discussed for the next x years ;-)
The Fitches
Doesn't Boy 2 owe boy 1 £1 and girl £67?

The girl owes nobody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :oP
Matt
Sounds like they need a bailout. £437.2bn should cover it.
quills4u
The capitalist girl should be taxed heavily to support boy 2 who was not able to enter the capitalist system and save enough for a football. The football should become a common resource as organised by boy 2 as only he understands the real disadvantage of owning nothing. Only in this way will all three children learn that all money and goods are a common resource and must be redistributed evenly. This is the only fair solution to this biased question obviously written for a capitalist book company.
The Genius Academy
Up the revolution! :-)
quills4u
Update: I understand that the capitalist girl has emigrated, on the pathetic pretext of being unable to earn enough in the UK, to both feed her family and pay her taxes.

Boy 2 now has two directors to run his CWF charity (Children Without Footballs) but unfortunately they have been signing themselves over funds to pay for second homes and gold plated pensions. The CWF bank has had to print many more bank notes, to cover their debts and stimulate footbal purchases but now the nasty capitalist Chinese football manufacturers are refusing to supply any more footballs, paid for in CWF paper money because they have the affrontery to say that it is worthless.

All this because capitalist girl was so selfish and chose to emigrate.

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