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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Try and Figure This Out.....

OK--Is all you need is a measuring tape, a table, and two cans of coke, or any aluminum can (Like the ones in the picture)
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First, stand one of the cans upright on the floor, and put the other one on its side on the table, like you see in the picture.

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Now, measure from the top of the can standing on the floor, to the top of the one on its side on the table.
Remember your measurement. Ours was about 32"


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Alright, now turn the one on the table that is on its side upright like the one on the floor, and turn the one on the floor on its side. In other words, switch their positions. Now measure it the same way as you did before--from the top of the one on its side to the top of the one that is upright. Remember this measurement, and compare it to the other one. They should be the same, right?? Guess again. You'll probably do this about 60 times unless you have someone REALLY smart who figures it out immediately.


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 Comment and tell us if y'all figured it out immediately, if it took you a while, or if you are just plain stumped. (I would still be stumped, but Peter, with his ingenious mind figured it out:)
Come on, now try it--you know you want to.....

Mary Noelle

11 comments:

The Dischers said...
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The Dischers said...

OK... We deleted the explanation but...the father of "Mr. Ingenious Mind" knew it right away! Grace (Miss SAT) got it pretty fast too. Eventually the rest of us kind of got it...

Love,
Aunt Beth
who...apparantly...loves...dots...

The Dischers said...

OK... We deleted the explanation but...the father of "Mr. Ingenious Mind" knew it right away! Grace (Miss SAT) got it pretty fast too. Eventually the rest of us kind of got it...

Love,
Aunt Beth
who...apparantly...loves...dots...

The Dischers said...

Woops! How did that happen?

(It will just look like this is an immensely popular post!)

Bonnie said...

Yes, this IS an immensely popular post! I just told Sarah Beth, "Four comments already!! I'm doing good to get four comments in six posts!" The engineer (Gdaddy) is the one who posed this "conundrum". He says they were doing it at the barber shop. What old geezer will do with their time!

Love,
Grandmother

Beatrix Potter said...

http://www.whoisbeatrix.blogspot.com/

The Miller Family said...

I guess I'm not very smart, 'cause I'm stumped!

Can we play Jeopardy??? I'm pretty good at that!

Love,
Aunt Katie

Anonymous said...

I GOT THE ANSWER. THE DISTANCE IN FIGURE 1 IS LONGER THAN IN FIGURE 2. DAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I THOUGHT YALL WERE HOME-SCHOOLED.

CATFISH

Anonymous said...

Another episode of Mary's Mathematical Mystery [The Case of the Irish Murphy And The Coveted Discher Brain] is available at seo-duit.com/mmm

Tina said...

ok No im not figuring this out... but, You do have the pictures of the measurements mixed up:)

Liv...whos still workin on this.

Tina said...

Ok i got it:)

Liv...whos not workin on it no more:)