Saturday, June 27, 2009

difficulty number 4 answers on 1st july

Caleb Smathers was walking home from the market with three nice ripe oranges, when he was faced with a problem. On the footbridge which he had to cross there was a sign announcing that the bridge's capacity was two hundred pounds. Caleb himself weighed a hundred ninety-six pounds and the oranges weighed two pounds each. What to do. He could, of course, make two trips, but a moment's reflection enabled him to figure out a way of getting himself and his three oranges across safely in one trip. How did he do it?

6 Comments:

Blogger dxc2007 said...

Float the oranges on the water? Or just throw the oranges?

June 28, 2009 at 2:10 AM  
Blogger wang qi yu said...

nice try..but its not

June 28, 2009 at 4:29 PM  
Blogger Freak Of Nature said...

roll the oranges..............

June 28, 2009 at 5:34 PM  
Blogger wang qi yu said...

no...

June 29, 2009 at 12:09 AM  
Blogger NoDayBut2day said...

Ask someone help him take across? haha

June 30, 2009 at 8:57 AM  
Blogger wang qi yu said...

!GOOD JOB......although make sense but i have a better answer-----------he juggled it agross

July 2, 2009 at 8:33 AM  

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