In The Still Of The Night

Because if you're going to convert to whole figures you have to consider all three measurements.

Go the opposite way and divide by three. You then have half hens, half eggs, and half days as the basic measurements.

So, a half hen lays a half egg in a half day. Double that and you get a whole hen laying a whole egg in a whole day. Triple it and you're back to the original poser: a hen and a half, an egg and a half, and a day and a half.

To show you how badly we are (we meaning North Americans) when it comes to math; when this question is administered to large groups of people, the overwhelming response is 36, rather than the mathematically correct 24. Which says an awful lot about our educational systems.

Ron, just for the record, this is not a trick question. It's an actual test of mathematical acuity. A trick question, along the same lines, would be:

If a rooster lays an egg on the peak of a roof so that it's perfectly balanced, and the wind comes up, blowing from the south at 5 mph, in what direction does the egg roll?

Well if it were that easy, Hila, try this one: What is the one piece of firefighting equipment that cannot go the wrong way on a one-way street?

This one actually used to be on the New York civil service test.

Dave and Dan are not allowed to respond!

Bzzzt! Wrong! Thanks for playing!

A hose.

Mark R

Don't know where you pulled that 2/3 egg figure from, Rod. But the answer to your question is simple arithmetic.

6 x 2/3=12/3=4 eggs per day.

The fire truck?

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1 and 1/2 chickens, 1 1/2 eggs over 1 1/2 days must be 1 hen 1 egg in 1 day...
Roosters don't lay eggs.
Foam?

Resident Peasant

oops .... I read it as what equipment can go BOTH ways...

dons thinking cap...

Resident Peasant

HistoricFoodie wrote:

Fire Truck---Fireman---Foam

Sorry, guys. Wrong answers.

Try it this way. As emergency vehicles and gear, fire-fighting equipment has the legal right to go the wrong way on a one-way street. There's is one piece of equipment, however, that can't do it.

fire chief's vehicle?

Mike
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TasunkaWitko wrote:

For the record, my wife thinks we're all nuts.

For the hen-and-a-half etc., she jumped straight to the actual question: "How many eggs will six hens lay in six days?"

36. Period. She doesn't want to hear about halves, sets etc. 36. And anyone who tries to say anything else is living on a different planet.

As for the fire equipment question, I am stumped. The only piece of equipment that I can think of that hasn't been mentioned is a ladder, but I have no idea how that would be relevant. Axe, breathing apparatus, none of them seem to apple. Unfortunately, I also know for sure that once the answer is revealed, it will be one of those "slap-your-forhead" moments....

i think your wife is 100% right .

and she got the constitution on here side .

Ahron