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To: dr_lew
It is stated that she has determined that she will need either 4 or 6 bags.

Are the bags plastic or paper?

76 posted on 12/12/2013 10:22:26 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial!

It’s funny. Do you know the puzzle of the farmer who wants to transport a fox, a goose, and some grain across a river on a raft, but he can only carry one of these at a time, and he cannot leave the fox and goose, or the goose and grain together? How can he do it? Of course, it’s a schematic problem, and one can raise all sorts of quibbles and qualifictions to the problem as stipulated, as I learned first hand as a youth.

My dad built a physical model of the problem with the farmer, fox, goose, and grain represented by pegs, with each side of the “river” represented by four holes for each of the pegs. You had to pull out the pegs simultaneously ( i.e. the farmer and one other ) or else it would buzz, and this was actually a fatal complication for the intent of the project, although occasionally he could do it. This was just straight wiring with a battery and a buzzer.

So what I’m saying is, you gotta go with it, you know?

First lesson!


82 posted on 12/12/2013 10:40:25 PM PST by dr_lew
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