HELP HARD MATHS RIDDLE 10 POINTS TO WHOEVER FIND OUTS ?!
Question: HELP HARD MATHS RIDDLE 10 POINTS TO WHOEVER FIND OUTS !?
a man need to take 3000 banana over 1000km of desert but he can only carry 1000 banana on his back and for every 1km he take he has to eat one banana to survive !.for example if the man took 1000 banana and walk only 100km he would have eat 100 bananas of the 1000 the took so he would be left with 900 banana and 900 km to walk!. the only clue i have is that he only carries a number of banana below that 1000 !. PLZ HELP I NEED HELPWww@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
It initially seems that the answer is 0 since it would take 3 trips to the market and the camel will have eaten all 3000 bananas by then!. But this doesn't take into account that his load is going to be reduced along the way as the camel eats the bananas!.
Let's take it mile by mile!. Since initially there are 3000 bananas and the camel only can carry 1000 at a time, the guy must make 3 trips forward: forward with the 1st 1000, back, forward with the 2nd 1000, back, and forward with the last 1000!. Note that it takes 3 trips forward and 2 trips back to go the mile!. For the 1st mile the guy carries 1000 bananas forward and eats 1, it eats 1 banana on the way back, carries 1000 bananas forward and eats 1, eats 1 going back, and 1000 bananas forward and eats 1!. So, after the 1st mile there are 1000 - 1 - 1 + 1000 - 1 - 1 + 1000 - 1 or 2995 bananas left!. So initially, for every mile traveled forward (in 3 trips), the camel eats 5 bananas!.
However, after 200 miles the load will be down to 2000 bananas and the camel only needs to make 2 trips forward: forward, back, forward!. For each of the next 333 and 1/3 miles the camel will eat 3 bananas to carry the load ahead!. So after 533 1/3 (200 + 333 1/3) miles the load will be eaten down to 1000 bananas!.
For the next 466 2/3 miles till the guy gets the market, it will eat 1 banana per mile to carry the load!. 1000 - 466 2/3 = 533 1/3 bananas left!. So the guy will eat a total of 200 * 5 + 333 1/3 * 3 + 466 2/3 = 2466 2/3 bananas to get the entire 3000 bananas to market so the grower will have 533 1/3 bananas left to sell!. Maybe 533 because who would want to eat a banana 2/3 of which a smelly camel has eaten!. The script accepted 532, 533, 533 1/3, 533!.333, and 534 depending on rounding and fractions!.
also, if he had a camel or other means of animal transport then he'll have to sell his animal because there because he doesn't have the bananas to get it back!.
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Let's take it mile by mile!. Since initially there are 3000 bananas and the camel only can carry 1000 at a time, the guy must make 3 trips forward: forward with the 1st 1000, back, forward with the 2nd 1000, back, and forward with the last 1000!. Note that it takes 3 trips forward and 2 trips back to go the mile!. For the 1st mile the guy carries 1000 bananas forward and eats 1, it eats 1 banana on the way back, carries 1000 bananas forward and eats 1, eats 1 going back, and 1000 bananas forward and eats 1!. So, after the 1st mile there are 1000 - 1 - 1 + 1000 - 1 - 1 + 1000 - 1 or 2995 bananas left!. So initially, for every mile traveled forward (in 3 trips), the camel eats 5 bananas!.
However, after 200 miles the load will be down to 2000 bananas and the camel only needs to make 2 trips forward: forward, back, forward!. For each of the next 333 and 1/3 miles the camel will eat 3 bananas to carry the load ahead!. So after 533 1/3 (200 + 333 1/3) miles the load will be eaten down to 1000 bananas!.
For the next 466 2/3 miles till the guy gets the market, it will eat 1 banana per mile to carry the load!. 1000 - 466 2/3 = 533 1/3 bananas left!. So the guy will eat a total of 200 * 5 + 333 1/3 * 3 + 466 2/3 = 2466 2/3 bananas to get the entire 3000 bananas to market so the grower will have 533 1/3 bananas left to sell!. Maybe 533 because who would want to eat a banana 2/3 of which a smelly camel has eaten!. The script accepted 532, 533, 533 1/3, 533!.333, and 534 depending on rounding and fractions!.
also, if he had a camel or other means of animal transport then he'll have to sell his animal because there because he doesn't have the bananas to get it back!.
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