[gridlock]

An engineer will answer that question in two seconds with "3 and a half minutes". And that is the right answer, because it is delivered in two seconds, and it is pretty darn close.

[mnehring]

An engineer will answer that question in two seconds with "3 and a half minutes". And that is the right answer, because it is delivered in two seconds, and it is pretty darn close.

A consultant would say this question does not have all the necessary information because of missing variables such as how well the two people work together, the overlap variable, the car was supply limitations if two people are using the same supplies.. etc.. You'll need to pay a consultant about $75 an hour to calculate in all those factors.

[Fierce Allegiance]

LOL, exactly what I said. I'm an engineer, and now do estimating (SWAG, scientific wild ass guess to 2 decimal places)

[GreenLanternCorps]

"An engineer will answer that question in two seconds with "3 and a half minutes". And that is the right answer, because it is delivered in two seconds, and it is pretty darn close."

The engineers who designed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?

[Robert A Cook PE]

A real engineer finds out how much, (and by who) he/she/it's getting paid to figger out what the answer is..... how accurate the customer is gonna what the answer, how accurate the customer actually NEEDS the answer, how close purchasing can buy the answer from somebody's catalog, how accurate the shop is gonna measure the answer, and how (almost) accurate the shop is gonna cut the answer, weld it, grind it, and then paint it.

Then he's gonna tell you the same answer: "3 and a half inches".

And that is the right answer, because it is delivered in two seconds, and it is pretty darn close."