Think laterally and you will get three answers to a simple question.
The question is:
What do you get if you minus Ten from Forty Nine?
The answers are
39
41
59
How? Please explain. No partial answers.
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2$\begingroup$ What is this, a lateral-thinking puzzle with "silly maths", and it's actually quite decent? What's next, a mystery puzzle with a satisfying solution? $\endgroup$– BassAug 26, 2020 at 16:59
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1$\begingroup$ Hmmm. Here is a mystery puzzle @Bass. Inspector Jacques Clouseau is called upon urgently to investigate a homicide at a Convention in Paris.The Speaker was murdered and all doors to the speech room were closed. Who did it? Hint: It was a Butler's convention :) $\endgroup$– DrDAug 26, 2020 at 18:52
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You can get any of the answers using
Roman numerals: XLIX = 49, remove the first X, leaves LIX = 59. Or remove the last, to get XLI = 41. Or correctly do the subtraction, to get XXXIX = 39.
