numbers

[beowulfmpf]

If you wrote all of the numbers from 300 to 400 (333, would count as 3 threes...) on a piece of paper, how many times would you have written the number 3?

[mikewall01]

I've got a good idea. You work out the answer and then post it here so that we can all share this mind numbing piece of information.

[sft42]

120...why did you want to know this?

[beowulfmpf]

it is a question on net riddle, the actual answer i needed was 5, but thanks fer the answer

[Gef]

I made it 111.

[mikewall01]

Can anyone explain how Beowulf gets the answer to the above question to be 5 ?

[katiesara]

It's part of the riddle, you literally count the 3's in the original question, rather than doing what the question asks - if that makes sense??

[wildwood]

"300 to 400(333, would count as 3 threes...)" has five threes in it Mike. Another one of those mindboggling trick Qs.

[wildwood]

sorry katie, we must have posted at the same time.

[lisaj]

Of course for that question to make grammatical sense the bit from '300' to '...)' should be in inverted commas. Otherwise 120 is the correct answer by grammatical implication.

[5029]

120

[xyzzy@bok]

5. and it makes me angry, hungry, and the other word that ends in gry.. :-)

[maitre d']

surely it's six? 300, 333, 3 = 5 + "threes" = 6 !