Betting odds teaser...

[Moshe Gariani]

You put 5p on a double

The bet wins and you are paid out £2.05

What were the individual odds of the two winners?

(no cheating)

 

[Goldstone1976]

You put 5p on a double

The bet wins and you are paid out £2.05

What were the individual odds of the two winners?

(no cheating)

I've never understood how the odds work on anything other than a single back bet, as I'm about to prove.

Can't there be multiple answers to this question? I'm guessing not, as otherwise you wouldn't have posed it.

 

[akipling]

39/1 and 1/40??

 

[Moshe Gariani]

39/1 and 1/40??

On the right lines but I'm looking for more "traditional" bookie odds that will do it.

 

[albion534]

Don't know. Not sure I care


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[Seagull58]

You put 5p on a double

The bet wins and you are paid out £2.05

What were the individual odds of the two winners?

(no cheating)

minus the tax?

 

[Moshe Gariani]

minus the tax?

No tax

 

[Seagull58]

4/1 and 8/1 if no tax deducted.

 

[Titanic]

4/1 and 8/1 if no tax deducted.

Doesn't that pay £2.25 ?

4/1 and 7.2/1 would do it... but not quite 'traditional'

 

[Taybha]

85/40 just popped into my head for no apparent reason , iv'e not seen that odds in bookies for yonks so i thought i would share .






carry on , sorry for interrupting

 

[CHAPPERS]

This is annoying.

 

[Playmaker]

Or 3/1 & 10/1

 

[Seagull58]

no, 4/1 and 7/1 because you get the 25p stake returned on the second bet and then you're paid out the amount returned on the second bet lus the original 5p stake, I think.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

4/1 and 8/1 if no tax deducted.

Pays £2.25

 

[Moshe Gariani]

no, 4/1 and 7/1 because you get the 25p stake returned on the second bet and then you're paid out the amount returned on the second bet lus the original 5p stake, I think.

Pays £2.00

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Doesn't that pay £2.25 ?

4/1 and 7.2/1 would do it... but not quite 'traditional'

7.2/1 is "not quite traditional" in the same way I'm not quite a Palace fan ...!!

 

[Playmaker]

4/1 x 5 = 20 + 5 (stake) = 25 Which is stake for next bet @ 8/1 = 200 + your stake back (5) = 205

Or 3/1 & 10/1 will do the same

 

[Titanic]

4/1 x 5 = 20 + 5 (stake) = 25 Which is stake for next bet @ 8/1 = 200 + your stake back (5) = 205

Or 3/1 & 10/1 will do the same

Your stake for the 2nd bet is 25p... so you get £2.25 back

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Or 3/1 & 10/1

Pays £2.20

 

[Titanic]

What does the bookie do with fractions... for example 21.6666 from the first bet?

Do you round it up/down and then calculate the 2nd bet? or put the fraction (to how many decimal places?) on the 2nd bet and then round the final result up/down??