Using only add, subtract, multiply and divide, and only using each number once, make '24' from:
1,3,4,6
*Remember* - cheating by looking for the answer on the internet spreads Swine Flu.
It's Friday - annoying puzzle day!
Do we have to use each number and each symbol? Otherwise I'm just multiplying 4 by 6 and calling it a day. 
Quote: Stan Doubt @ September 11 2009, 12:45 PM BSTUsing only add, subtract, multiply and divide, and only using each number once, make '24' from:
1,3,4,6
I assumed this would be some darkly amusing Jack Bauer gag, maybe about how the torture scenes on 24 encouraged the jailers in Abu Ghraib but it looks like it's just boring maths.
Can we add to numbers together? like
36, or 42?
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaths!
Elliot - you have to use every number.
Gavin - you can't do that, no.
Here's some more for people who don't like Maths:
Answer this dingbat:
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If I have two coins that add up to 12p and one isn't a 10p what are the two coins?
Epmmzebhhfs – Unencrypt the BSG Member
It is 8am. On the way to critique a five new sitcoms, you notice a boat in the BSG harbour has a ladder on it's side with twelve rungs. The rungs alternate 1 foot and 0.5 foot distance, starting with 0.5 foot. Two are submerged. The tide is rising at 0.3 feet an hour. After reviewing all five sitcoms - all BBC Three, with no ad breaks - how many more rungs will be submerged?
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Above is the number '9' in roman numerals. With one press of the keyboard (without deleting the whole puzzle), turn it into a '6'.
*edit* - the 'b's are blanks - the posting software removes spaces!! It may help to draw it.
Three men walk into a hotel, and they're going to split the cost of a room. The room is £30. They each put in £10 and head up to their room. The manager gets wind of it and tells the clerk the room is only £25. He hands five 1 pound coins to the bell hop and tells him to go refund the employees' money. On the way up to the room, the bell hop gets to thinking, as bell hops are won't to do, and says to himself, "No way can three men split £5, I'm going to help out. Plus they're on expenses!" He stuffs £2 in his pocket, knocks on the door, gives each man back a coin and heads back downstairs to the desk, glowing in the warmth of a job well done. So now each man has paid £9. £9 times 3 is £27 plus the two the bell hop stole—which adds up to only £29! Where is the other pound?
If I have two coins that add up to 12p and one isn't a 10p what are the two coins?
10p and a 2p
Correct.
Quote: Stan Doubt @ September 11 2009, 1:44 PM BSTNE1
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What's with all this racket on the BCG?
LOL! Isn't Andy Murray a cheerful chap?
Quote: Stan Doubt @ September 11 2009, 1:44 PM BSTThree men walk into a hotel, and they're going to split the cost of a room. The room is £30. They each put in £10 and head up to their room. The manager gets wind of it and tells the clerk the room is only £25. He hands five 1 pound coins to the bell hop and tells him to go refund the employees' money. On the way up to the room, the bell hop gets to thinking, as bell hops are won't to do, and says to himself, "No way can three men split £5, I'm going to help out. Plus they're on expenses!" He stuffs £2 in his pocket, knocks on the door, gives each man back a coin and heads back downstairs to the desk, glowing in the warmth of a job well done. So now each man has paid £9. £9 times 3 is £27 plus the two the bell hop stole—which adds up to only £29! Where is the other pound?
In one of the 3 mens pockets - because then started out with £10 each and the bell hop gave them each £1 bringing their total to £11 each and as they only paid out £9 each for the room, they each saved £2 back.
The trick is to remember the total amount of money you are working with is not £30, it's £35. 
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ September 11 2009, 3:13 PM BSTThe trick is to remember the total amount of money you are working with is not £30, it's £35.
It's not really £35
it's £ 25 or £ 30 depending on which way you look at it.
The error comes when you add the Bellhops £2 to the £ 27 as the £2 is included in the £27.
They all pay £9, whhich is £27 two pound of which the bellhop takes = £ 25 which is the price of the room.
erm... I thinkthat's it anyway.
Maths ain't my strong point so I doubt I'm right anyway!
How about this one?
As punishment for crimes against comedy, 9 of the people involved with commissioning '2 pints of Lager' are turned into goats by God and penned into a field. After 4 days, they've eaten all the grass and then starve. Pleased with his work, God then goes takes the 8 people who took bribes off Mike McIntyre to set up his career in comedy, turns them into goats and puts them into an identical field. After 5 days, they too have eaten all the grass, and they then starve.
Finally, in a perverse move typical of the almighty, God takes Bain, Armstrong, Mitchell and Webb, turns them into goats, and puts them into another identical field. For how long will these four survive?
Damn you Stan, my noggin hurts.
I'm off to colour in something.... 