Another Riddle

Bart52571

Bart52571

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I need a math wiz. The answer will come out in a magazine in a month but I'm sure we can figure it out. We meaning you guys.

If a chicken and a half can lay
an egg and a half in a
day and a half. How long will it
take for 10 chickens to lay 15 eggs? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I have my guess, and at work we several different answers, anybody want to take a stab at it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
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How long will it take for 10 chickens to lay 15 eggs?



Are these chickens all hens? How many "half" chickens are there? If there are 2, then it would take 2 to produce 1 egg per day, or 4 to produce 2 eggs per day, etc.

Ten normal hens would produce 20 eggs in 2 days, or theoretically, 15 in a day and a half.

I'm just thinking out loud. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1 chick = .75 egg in 1.5 days
added together so far
10 chicks 9.75 eggs in 1.5 days

Where am I going wrong. I know I should have paid attention in school.
 
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1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days



You think so? What if the chicks did their laying at 10 AM? Every day? That means 1.5 chicks = 3 eggs in 1.5 days. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
OK now my head hurts. But 10 am to 10 am is 1 day not 1.5 days. I wouldn't blame you for giving up on me!
 
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I got one for you, Who was the first guy to see an egg coming out of a chickens butt and said "Man that looks good, I think I'll eat it?"
 
I disagree. Basically, you remove the one half from the chicken and the egg part so it kinda reads:

1 chicken lays an egg every 1 and 1/2 days. So 10 chickens lay 10 eggs in 1 and 1/2 days. Now, 10 chickens lay 15 eggs in 3 days, with 5 extra eggs to spare.
 
I think the real question here is this.

I'm a fifty year old man, with no cholesterol problem. How many of those eggs should I have with my elk sausage?
 
J Holly-

I am following your logic.

But wouldn't that put the answer at 10 chickens would lay 15 eggs in 2 1/4 days "officially"?

Bart,

Since it was your question, you actually are on exactly the right track with your logic here, you just plugged a wrong number in (I did the same thing, but I blame you for doing it first!)
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1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1.5 chicks = 1.5 eggs in 1.5 days
1 chick = .75 egg in 1.5 days
added together so far
10 chicks 9.75 eggs in 1.5 days




Your "error" was on the last line when you only removed .5 or 1/3 from the chick and then removed .75 or 1/2 from the egg. Since 1 chick and 1 egg in 1.5 days hold true in your graph then to add an additional 5 eggs would require only .75 more days.
 
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But 10 am to 10 am is 1 day not 1.5 days.



Incorrect! It's 24 hours, but not 1 day. But to a chicken it's a day and a half. It sees the sun rise, the sun set, and the sun rise again. That's the cycle that triggers the egg laying process. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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If a chicken and a half can lay
an egg and a half in a
day and a half. How long will it
take for 10 chickens to lay 15 eggs



To make it easier to see, double everything in the equation to eliminate the "halves".

3 chickens
3 eggs
3 days

That means 1 chicken is laying 1 egg per day.

15 eggs will take 10 chickens 1.5 days. 15/10=1.5
 
slaughter the chickens and invite the neighbors over for dinner /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
 
That depends. Are the chickens ISO 9001 certified? Are the chickens representing by a union, and if so, what is spelled out in their contract, or is said contract up for renewal? Furthermore, if said contact up for renewal does the new contract properly represent the wishes of the union or is a walkout iminent? If a walkout does occour does management have plans to out-source the egg laying to Mexico under NAFTA and close the original coop?

ETA: I'm guessing the egg laying chicken labor has already been sourced from Mexico as the requirement is for 15 eggs. Certainly this is to allow for an expected 20% defect rate that is a side effect of the Mexican labor. As such 15 eggs would allow for enough eggs to produce one dozen marketable eggs given the 20% defect rate.
 
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