This is part of the "conundrum" game on a virtual pets site I play. I need some help figuring it out! You don't need to know who "Dr. Sloth" is or what "Virtupets" or "Grundos" are. :^) All help is appreciated as this has me totally stumped! The riddle is as follows:
"In an exceptionally long corridor in the Virtupets Space Station, there are one thousand windows along one wall. Coincidentally, there are exactly one thousand Grundos in the station. Dr Sloth orders the first Grundo to open the blinds on every window. Then, he orders the second Grundo to close the blinds on every second window. Then the third Grundo is told to go to every third window, and close the blinds if they are open, and open the blinds if they are closed. The fourth Grundo does this for every fourth window, and so on.
After all 1000 Grundos complete the process, how many blinds are open?"
2007-03-02 13:10:37 · 17 answers · asked by Lulu (: 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
his is part of the "conundrum" game on a virtual pets site I play. I need some help figuring it out! You don't need to know who "Dr. Sloth" is or what "Virtupets" or "Grundos" are. :^) All help is appreciated as this has me totally stumped! The riddle is as follows:
"In an exceptionally long corridor in the Virtupets Space Station, there are one thousand windows along one wall. Coincidentally, there are exactly one thousand Grundos in the station. Dr Sloth orders the first Grundo to open the blinds on every window. Then, he orders the second Grundo to close the blinds on every second window. Then the third Grundo is told to go to every third window, and close the blinds if they are open, and open the blinds if they are closed. The fourth Grundo does this for every fourth window, and so on.
After all 1000 Grundos complete the process, how many blinds are open?"
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Thanks for the answers, guys. :^)
And for everyone out there making such fun of Neopets... I'm 13, leave it alone!
2007-03-02 18:09:12 · update #1
Hello all, sorry I messed up the last comment. I decided to enter "1" as my answer, when I find out the answer to the riddle I will select best answer! Thx!
2007-03-03 18:48:42 · update #2
You still play Neopets??
2007-03-02 13:12:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In order to find the answer to this question just find all of the square numbers between 1 and 1000. (including 1, not 1000 since it is not a square number) These windows would be open: #1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, etc. up to 1000. Have fun ;-)
2007-03-02 14:44:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One
2007-03-02 13:19:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1000
2007-03-02 13:47:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I play Neopets but I don't know the answer cause I'm only 13!
2007-03-02 13:31:30 · answer #5 · answered by TicaD 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One cause the 1st window will never be opened
2007-03-02 14:00:12 · answer #6 · answered by emachines916 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one
2007-03-02 13:15:07 · answer #7 · answered by Rachel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
okay neopet user, if you want sarcasm try more than one because this is extremely hard to answer...
2007-03-02 13:49:06 · answer #8 · answered by jaded girl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
omg neopets ick! don't try to hide it we know thats what your talking about!
2007-03-02 13:20:13 · answer #9 · answered by whataporpoise 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think like none!
2007-03-02 16:02:39 · answer #10 · answered by Creepy Man2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋