Oz's Question of the day #34(3/7/09)

[OZXJR]

A man told his son that he would give him $1000 if he could accomplish the following task.
The father gave his son ten envelopes and a thousand dollars, all in one dollar bills.
He told his son, "Place the money in the envelopes in such a manner that no matter what number of dollars I ask for, you can give me one or more of the envelopes, containing the exact amount I asked for without having to open any of the envelopes.
If you can do this, you will keep the $1000."

When the father asked for a sum of money, the son was able to give him envelopes containing the exact amount of money asked for.

How did the son distribute the money among the ten envelopes?

PM answers please.

 

[Mac fz6n]

PM'd an answer.

Cheers Oz.

Mac.

 

[lytehouse]

good lord Mick..........:don'tknow:

 

[dean owens]

my answer's in.

 

[hardheaded]

sent..................

 

[SirIsaac]

PMed an answer.

 

[OZXJR]

Answer:the following amounts go in each envelope 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,489

Rep and Casino cash winners:Jazzpaintball,Mac FZ6n and Dean Owens

Rep winners:SirIsaac and GastonJ

Congrats guys and thanks to all that played.

 

[dean owens]

and for our lucky winners....

 

[jazzpaintball]

there are only 00000010 types of people in the world
people who can read binary code
and people who cant

lol

 

[Mac fz6n]

years of engineering finally paid off. :rof::rof::rof:

Mac.
:aus:

 

[GastonJ]

Thanks for continuing QOD Oz, some really good puzzles up to now :thumbup: