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A T-shirt Riddle and Giveaway!

Many of you know how much I enjoy giving gifts around the holidays and since I just celebrated a birthday last weekend, it seems as good enough a holiday as any to host a Generation T giveaway. I hope you’ll agree! To enter to win this Generation T gift pack (includes a blank T-shirt and some surprise refashioning goodies), solve the riddle below and e-mail Megan the answer (megan@generation-t.com) by 5 pm (EST) on Friday, August 12. The winner will be selected at random from those who answer correctly and announced via the Generation T website and the Generation T Facebook page.

Here goes:

Megan owns 35 T-shirts whose colors are red, black, and white. She has three times as many black T-shirts as white T-shirts, and the number of red T-shirts she owns is five greater than the number of white T-shirts. How many T-shirts of each color does Megan have?

Happy solving!

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This puzzle was adapted from the Mensa 365 Brain Puzzlers Page-A-Day calendar.

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[ Posted on August 9th, 2011 ]

7 Comments

  1. August 11, 2011 at 7:07 pm
    Amanda says:

    Ooh, puzzles!! Yay!!

    So, 6 white shirts, 11 red shirts, and 18 black shirts!!

    😀

  2. August 11, 2011 at 11:14 pm
    bakergeek says:

    18 black
    6 white
    11 red

  3. August 13, 2011 at 2:17 am
    T-shirt Riddle Answer — We Have a Winner! « Generation T says:

    […] The T-shirt puzzle was adapted from the Mensa 365 Brain Puzzlers Page-A-Day calendar. […]

  4. August 16, 2011 at 8:47 pm
    Hoshea says:

    6 whits shirts
    18 black shirts
    11 red shirts

  5. August 16, 2011 at 8:47 pm
    Hoshea says:

    6 white shirts
    18 black shirts
    11 red shirts

  6. January 10, 2012 at 11:42 pm
    taleulla jane says:

    NOT ENOUGH!! BUT JUST ENOUGH FOE FUN!!!

  7. April 5, 2013 at 5:32 pm
    Elizabeth says:

    6 White, 18 black, 11 red