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Hi Ali ,

This cannot be a financial calculation , unless your finances are in pretty bad shape.

This is a very old riddle ; the simple fact is that you cannot add the balances to arrive at anything ; a balance is just that , a balance ; several balances cannot be added together at all.

Narayan
 
Hi Ali ,

It appears very weird because the difference is just 1 rupee ; but that is because of the choice of values ; try choosing the values 20 , 15 , 1 and 14 for the 4 items , and see the difference.

Narayan
 
I will admit I am pretty useless at financial matters at the level @Narayan is working at and I probably do not understand what the OP is trying to achieve....but I am willing to take guidance on it and would like to know why adding to balances together is wrong
 

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Hi Bob ,

Probably it is not intuitive when we deal with money , since all of us would like to end up with more than what we started off with !

Apply the same principle to distances and see where it leads :

Suppose we have to travel 100 kms ; we travel 20 kms in one hour , and we are left to travel 80 kms , which is the first balance.

In the next one hour we travel 30 kms , which means our balance is now 50 kms.

If we now add 80 and 50 , we will probably give up travelling , since after travelling for 2 hours , and moving 50 kms towards our destination , we are farther from our destination than when we started !

Narayan
 
@Narayan That's why I left all money matters to my dear late wife...when I think of balance I natural assume total(final) balance not partial, to many years in engineering.. it is or it is not.


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This was raging on WhatsApp / Facebook sometime back as financial puzzle.

Ledgers are never managed like that (I know very little about them) and reconciliation is done differently.

It is just a trick where someone has cleverly used numbers to create a difference of 1. If you want to verify this then make 50 purchases of Rs. 1 chocolate.
1 | 49
1 | 48
:
:
0 | 1

You will end up with 50 on one side and 1225 on the other!
 
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