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Catch a Train
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When do you have the better chance at catching a train?
12:45 or 12:30
12:45 or 12:30
Hint
Think odds.Answer
12:45 because it is fifteen to one (15:1). At 12:30 its (30:1) which is worse odds.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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very clever indeed!
Oh...I get it....for those of you that dont get it (cos i didnt at the start ) read 12:45 as 15 to 1....cos its 15 minutes to 1 O'clock. and 12:30 is 30 minutes to 1 O'clock.
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I was reading it as 12 to 45 and 12 to 30, and 12 to 30 would be better odds
LOL I did fractions: 12/45=0.26.. or something like that. then 12/30=0.4. So I figured 12:30 were better odds.
just like mine but mine was in ratio form and urs was fraction. iot could really go both ways.
ok, initally i figured 12:30, better odds, but gaz's answer states time, either way its a dumb question because 12:30 is better odd and the answer say 12:45 and if it is time what is soooo special about 1 o'clock, WHY not 12:30?? and another reason is the answer is set up as ratios, seemingly and mentions nothing about time. bad all around sorry 78 keep trying!
ok, that's just a bad bad answer, I inadvertantly hit hint and it says think odds! soo this is just a wrong answer.
Now I'm not a betting person so correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't odds of 12:30 = 2:5 mean a 7:5 ON favourite?
Hey Peeps! It's phisically impossible to "catch" a train!
beanie all the way!!!!! i didn't bother to try on that one cuz you can't catch a train!!!!!
thanks Ga_z 'coz i actually didn't get it.
when i saw the "think odds" thing i read 12 to 45 and 12 to 30, and even though i'm hopeless at odds i decided that the 12 to 30 was better.
your explanation made the answer make sense though - thanks!!
when i saw the "think odds" thing i read 12 to 45 and 12 to 30, and even though i'm hopeless at odds i decided that the 12 to 30 was better.
your explanation made the answer make sense though - thanks!!
i thought the answer was it was impossible to catch a train because it was in trick catagory
I thought since it was in trick it was that you can never catch a train.
my answer is when the train stops and I stand by that answer.
mind the gap!
well it does depend on what time you are there
same here, beanie. i thought that it would be quite impossible to "catch" a train.
ooh, I get it, it was clever
hahaha i thought it was never
i thought you had to chase after a trian and catch it
i thought you had to chase after a trian and catch it
*train
You can't hold a train.
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