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Friday, April 28, 2006
Into the basket
A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them to 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
I hadn't thought of putting the kid into the basket: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple.
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It's a very big basket, so put one of the kids in the basket with his/her apple.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought of putting the kid into the basket: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple.
ReplyDeletethat's what i call thinking outside of the baseket, anon.
ReplyDelete(posted by Anonymous 2)
ReplyDelete4 of the kids get an apple, the 5th gets an apple in a basket.