This is not a trick question. It merely tests one's ability to think logically and carry out elementary maths.
Given that, statistically, one and half hens take one and a half days to lay one and a half eggs, how long should it take two hens to lay ten eggs?
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Here’s one with fuzzy logic.
If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a third in a day and a quarter, how long does it take a wooden-legged parrot to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?
yvilletom
Level 8
May 3, 2023
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2.5 quanta.
@Petter I'm thinking .25, but hey, decimal points are flexible, right? a gal putting in my insulin dose in my medical records put 18000 units instead of 18 units (for those curious, 18000 units would be sufficient to kill about 2,000 people.) took me Months to get that fixed, literally months, all the while praying if i was in the ER unconscious, someone would take a moment to think things through......
@AnneWimsey Another impossibility. Quanta only exist as integers. There is no such thing as a half or quarter quantum.
Hence the sly dig in my answer to @yvilletom
@AnneWimsey She probably got confused by milligrams being 1/1000 gm. Your dose would be 0.6 of a thousandth of a gramme of crystaline insulin.
Given e^ (i * pi ) + 1 = 0 and the known third and fourth decimal digits of the chicken and egg pi in March I'd prefer that the question asked for 22 and a half eggs and one productive hen.
waitingforgodo
Level 8
May 3, 2023
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OK here goes. Double the number of hens makes three, who must lay double the number of eggs also three, in the same time. So three hens lay three eggs in one and a half days. Divide by three, then each hen lays one egg in one and a half days. Two hens each have five eggs to lay, so five times one and a half is seven and a half.
But I still can not see how a hen lays half an egg. Unless the hens are very slow layers, and it takes a long time to push an egg out, so you measure an egg as half an egg, when it is half way out. This is no way to treat hens.
Fernapple
Level 9
May 3, 2023
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That's what I got too. you can cross out some units and simplify to 11/2 days per egg laid per chicken times 5 (divide by 2 times 10)
Logic good. The full hen accounts for the full egg. The half hen accounts for the half egg. So a hen takes a day and a half to lay an egg. That's logic. The 7½ days is simple maths.
somebody did statistics on halved hens???????? from personal observation????????
AnneWimsey
Level 9
May 3, 2023
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Cmon... you never ordered a side of hen with your dinner?
@TheoryNumber3 yeah but they laid no eggs on that plate........
@AnneWimsey You should have called the manager and complained - after waiting one and a half days.
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