Thursday, January 01, 2015

Scotsman's Job Interview

A Scotsman wants a job, 

but the boss won't hire him until he passes a little maths test. 

Here is your first question, the boss said. 

"Without using numbers, represent the number 9." 

"Without numbers?" the Scotsman says 

"Dats easy." 

And proceeds to draw three trees.



"What's this?" the boss asks.

"Have you no brain? Tree and tree, plus tree makes 9" says the Scot.

"Fair enough," says the boss.

"Here's your second question. 
Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99."

The Scotsman stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree.. "Ere ye go."






The boss scratches his head and says, 

"How on earth do you get that to represent 99?"

"Each of them trees is dirty now. So, it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, plus dirty tree. Dat makes 99," says the Scotsman

The boss is getting worried that he's going to actually have to hire the Scot, 

so he says, "All right, last question. Same rules again,  but represent the number 100."

The Scotsman stares into space some more, 


then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, "Ere ye go. One hundred."





The boss looks at the attempt. 

"You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!" 

The Scot leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree 
and whispers, "A little dog came along and pooped by each tree. 
So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, 
and dirty tree and a turd, which makes ONE HUNDRED!"

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