Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 3)

On a sunny day (Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:53:44 -0800) it happened john larkin
<JL@gct.com> wrote in <7m0kjj9ctgpp2psht3nlb3df89noikb6n1@4ax.com>:

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:12:33 -0500, ehsjr <ehsjr@verizon.net> wrote:
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On 11/16/2024 5:40 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

Okay, here's another one. Show your process to prove you're not
cheating like 'some' people here do.....
 
https://disk.yandex.com/i/OFtuzcb3DSZfGg
 

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Answer: Frog+Sheep+Horse=27
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Work: (which took a whole bunch less time than typing it)
Eq1  F+S = 10  thus F=10-S
Eq2  F+H = 20 so F+H = 2(F+S) = 2F+2S
so F+H-F=2F+2S-F thus H=F+2S
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S+H = 24 so S+F+2S=24 thus F+3S=24
from Eq1 F=10-S so 10-S+3S=24 so 10+2S=24 so 2S=14 thus S=7
since S=7 then from Eq1 F=10-S thus F=3
From Eq2 F+H =20 so 3+H = 20 thus H=17
So F+S+H = howinthehelldoyougetthemallonthescaleatthesametime?
Ed

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The sheep gets hungry while you are doing the math and eats the frog,
but that doesn't change the weight.
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Of course one can't clean the platform until all the measurements are
made.

Best is to do the experiment in outer space or in free fall
then the answer is always zero.