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by cupcake 1 view

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Thankfully, although he is no longer my 'official' boss, he is still providing the Friday quiz. So, here?s the problem for today:

So, you?re driving back to work after lunch one wintry day and you pass the electronic billboard outside the bank that shows the time and temperature. On your way home, you pass the same billboard. You notice that the Farenheit temperature has dropped 36 degrees. But the Celsius temperature is still the same. What?s going on?

Good luck!

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by cupcake

This one has me stumped personally... the boss reveals his answer around lunch time (CST)

by netman1958

but it doesn't work out right with a drop of 36 degrees.

The formula for F to C is:
(F - 32) * 5/9. That is until you reach freezing which is 32F and 0C.

So if we assume that instead of 36 degree drop in Farenheit it was 32 degrees and that the sign can't show negative numbers, then I would say that at lunch, the temp was 32F and 0C.

Then the temp dropped by 32 degrees and on the way home, the F scale displayed 0 and since the C scale couldn't go negative, it still displayed 0.

by bizzo

My suggestion was that the minus sign wasn't working on the celcius sign.

The original temp was:
50 F = 10 C
dropping by 36 degrees F gives:
14 F = -10 C

by charliespencer

I believe cupcake said her ex-boss prohibited using the Internet to research the questions. He wanted his subordinates to think, or some such BS. Since he's plagiarizing his material almost word for word straight from Car Talk's 'Puzzler' web site (I recognize every question cupcake has posted) and not thinking of original challenges on his own, I see no reason to obey his dictates. Do as he does, not as he says.

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