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Old May 10, 2007, 01:32 PM
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Wine riddle

OK, here's a fun little problem whose answer can be surprising -

Suppose you have two glasses of different liquids with the exact same amount in both - say 6 ounces of red wine in one glass and 6 ounces of white wine in another. Now if you pour exactly one ounce of the red wine into the white and thoroughly mix it, and then pour one ounce of that mixture back into the glass of red wine and mix it, you will end up with two glasses each containing 6 ounces of "contaminated" wine. The question is: after all the mixing which glass has wine that is more contaminated: the one that was originally all red or the one that was originally all white?

Go ahead and post your answer, but please don't give a math proof for it - at least not yet - as that may spoil it for others....

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Old May 10, 2007, 01:37 PM   #2  
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errrrrrm that's easy NEITHER.
well you weren't drinking it so it's all mine.
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the white is more contaminated....
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Here hand me both, I'll taste them and tell you which is contaminated

BEN, GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY WINE!!!!!!!!!
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lol...I wish i could drink...what do they say? a glass a day?
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both are contaminated the same amount.
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Contaminated is contaminated in my book.

They each have the same amount of the other wine in them, though.
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a glass of red is good ALK!!!

Now, let me taste em and I'll tell ya, I like contamination!!! LOL

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Oh yeah there's a question here.
Well other than me being most contaminated, I'd agree with Alk that the one that was all white is the most now.
But then again I could be wrong so why not refill each and talk me through it again, S L O W L Y this time.

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Refill glasses, heck let's just pass the bottles!!!
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