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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Read carefully, plot twist ahead

In the back yard there is a hollow stump that contains six ears of corn. If a healthy squirrel carries out only three ears each day, how many days will it take to empty the stump?
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous12/05/2006 12:05 PM

    the rabbit is 'healthy', so it has 2 ears attached to its head, so it will carry only one ear of corn each day if it carries three total 'ears', so it will take 6 days

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  2. Andy12/05/2006 12:11 PM

    I think Abe's right, but I find it funny that in his answer, the squirrel transformed into a rabbit. Silly squirrel! Corn is for rabbits!

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  3. Unknown12/06/2006 8:16 AM

    Every time I think I have a tough question, you all come out with the right answer almost immediately.

    The answer is six. Each day the squirrel (not a rabbit ;-)) will carry out the two ears on his head plus one ear of corn.

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  4. Anonymous12/07/2006 9:51 AM

    perhaps it was a magic squirrel...

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