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	Name:	jawjagal -
	Subject:	puzzle
	Date:	2/16/2006 6:59:45 PM

I have a MENSA puzzle page-a-day calendar on my desk at work. The puzzle today seems to have a glaring problem. Let's see if any of you can figure out what the problem is. Here is the puzzle, copied exactly from the calendar.

"Kim has three vases in her living room, each containing the same number of flowers. Kim adds thress fresh flowers to one vase, which now has two more than the new average. How many flowers were in the vases originally?"

What is wrong with that puzzle?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT PUZZLE? We don't know how old Kim is. We don't know if Kim is really a boy or a girl (Kim could be from Korea) and the fresh flowers are really silk flowers made to look like fresh flowers. We also don't know the KIND of flowers that were put in the vases, hence the size of the opening of the vase, to know how many would go into the vase. Was the vase filled to the top with water? We don't know that either...that would let us know how many it would hold. So, it is impossible to answer this question because they have left too many variables out. Next puzzle, please....;-)