Monday Math Quiz
Here is today's quiz. Have fun.
You are a butcher specializing in ground emu. A customer calls and says they will be there in three hours to buy some, but they didn't tell you how many pounds. You are the only one qualified to wrap the ground emu and you have to leave early for the day.
Assuming you have a total of 50 pounds of ground emu prepared, and using the fewest number of packages possible, you must wrap the emu so that the customer can buy ANY amount from 1 to 50 pounds of ground emu without having to split up a package. What is the minimum number of packages you will require and how much is in each package?
Good luck!!
You are a butcher specializing in ground emu. A customer calls and says they will be there in three hours to buy some, but they didn't tell you how many pounds. You are the only one qualified to wrap the ground emu and you have to leave early for the day.
Assuming you have a total of 50 pounds of ground emu prepared, and using the fewest number of packages possible, you must wrap the emu so that the customer can buy ANY amount from 1 to 50 pounds of ground emu without having to split up a package. What is the minimum number of packages you will require and how much is in each package?
Good luck!!
posted by dewdew @ 6/06/2005 09:32:00 PM
13 Comments:
At June 07, 2005 10:50 AM,
MooCow said…
6 packages?
1, 2, 4, 8, 11, 24 pounds
At June 07, 2005 2:04 PM,
Grend31 said…
Is it the same if you want ground MooCow?
At June 07, 2005 3:21 PM,
Jesster said…
Hire an apprentice.
At June 07, 2005 7:11 PM,
dewdew said…
Good job, MooCow. You get the prize!
The other solution is:
1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 19 pounds
Thanks everyone for playing. Note: there isn't a bag that can hold MooCow.
At June 08, 2005 11:20 AM,
Grend31 said…
What about a sack?
At June 08, 2005 12:26 PM,
MooCow said…
Can we not talk about my sack?
At June 08, 2005 4:36 PM,
Grend31 said…
*touches the sack for MooCow*
At June 09, 2005 9:28 AM,
dewdew said…
Out of Emu? Try:
MooCow sack... a tasty snack.
Lucious MooCow bits.
At June 09, 2005 12:25 PM,
MooCow said…
So okay I'm curious here...is there a way to do this mathamatically instead of just guess and check like I did?
At June 09, 2005 3:41 PM,
Grend31 said…
I'd recommend doing this with a rusty pair of tinsnips. We were talking about acquiring the sack right?
At June 09, 2005 4:09 PM,
dewdew said…
I would like to acquire the MooCow sack mathematically... tangent, cosine, quotient... tessellation. (now, that's close)
I'm not sure that there is a mathematical "formula" to get the answer to this question. The answer lies more in recognizing the relationship of numbers, specifically the 2^x series. You stumbled on it in your solution. The "guess and check" is a perfectly valid tried-and-true method for solving a problem, and always welcome here.
At June 12, 2005 8:37 PM,
Sascha said…
Emu? Yuck. Can I lecture the customer on the values of wild game and vegetarianism instead?
At June 15, 2005 11:17 AM,
dewdew said…
Vegitarian discussions are not welcome here.
If we weren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?
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