Homework ... math question?

[cirianz]

Speaking of birickbats... where'd that mucks get to? I bet he's off somewhere giggling at us like a teenage girl

 

[muckshifter]

Tut tut.

The answer is nill. Do I win something?



Edit: So long as this is a conceptual question rather than a mathematical one...

THE WINNER!


... It was all a joke, but it was just too good to pass up.

 

[kingnathski88]

Are 2 seperate answers required? i.e. 1 for the first part, then one for the second?

 

[kingnathski88]

ignore that lol, only saw the 1st page


But is there an actual answer for it?

 

[ChristopherP]

If you were to assume 2 week old eggs were fresh, i think my answer could be right, maybe?

 

[kingnathski88]

I will try it out then se if i get the same

 

[floppybootstomp]

Who gives a monkeys?

sorry

 

[kingnathski88]

curious now

 

[psd99]

Firstly, what does the first line have to do with it - eggs arent fresh after 2 weeks surely!

probably went totally wrong somewhere but heres my workings - please point out where i went wrong!! It was VERY hard!

Start @ 00:07

5 Hens @ 6 per day = 6x5...30. 30x14 = 420 eggs.

9 Hens @ 4 per day = 9x4...36 36x14 = 504 eggs

10 hens @ 2 per day = 10x2...20 20x14 = 280 eggs

Thats 1204 eggs assuming they were consistent for the 2 weeks...

BUT

3 of the 4 per day hens didn't produce for 9 of 14 days

so 3x4 = 12 x 9 = 108
1204 - 108 = 1096

BUT

4 of the 6-per-day hens ran away after 4 days, but 3 of them were caught by the farmer's wife after 2 days

5x6 + 5x6 + 5x6 + 5x6 + 1x6 + 1x6 + 3x6 + 3x6 + 3x6 + 3x6 + 3x6 + 3x6 + 3x6 + 3x6

30 + 30 + 30 + 30 + 6 + 6 + 18 + 18 + 18 + 18 + 18 + 18 + 18 + 18

= 30x4days + 6x2days + 18x8 days

= 120 + 12 + 144 = 276

So... 420-276 = 144

So... 1096 - 144 = 952

BUT

8 of the 2-per-day hens stopped laying after 3 days but started again after 1 day

8x2 = 16 so 1 day of not laying = 16 less in total

So... 952 - 16 = 936

BUT

3 of the 6-per-day hens produced 2 extra eggs per day for 4 of the 14 days, and 1 extra eggs per day for 7 of the 14 days,

3(2x4)= 24 extra eggs

THEN

3 extra eggs a day for 7 days so 7x3 = 21

SO... 24+21 = 45 ADDED

So... 936 + 45 = 981

BUT

4 new 2-per-day hens added after 6 days to replace the 3 4-per-day hens that were eaten by the 2 foxes

So AFTER 6 days = 8 days with 4 hens laying 2 eggs a day = 8 eggs a day multiplied by 8 days

SO... 8x8 = 64

64 added to 981 = 1045

Finished at 00:30

bloody hell
Postill!

that looks like some crazy stuff there lol!

and all wasted effort aswell!

 

[ChristopherP]

Yeah i hadn't worked that hard on a problem for ages...

 

[itsme]

Wrong ... go stand in the corner.

What in a round room?

 

[muckshifter]

You know the whole thing was just a joke ...

... but somehow, I just had to get an 'answer' to it anyway.

 

[cirianz]

You know the whole thing was just a joke ...

... but somehow, I just had to get an 'answer' to it anyway.

Hmmmmmmm...... You know, throwing pavlova's would be even messier than throwing pies.

 

[muckshifter]

Life is full of mysteries ...

bloody hell
Postill!

that looks like some crazy stuff there lol!

and all wasted effort as well!

Nope! ... not waisted, chalk it up as a lesson well learned.

 

[muckshifter]

Hmmmmmmm...... You know, throwing pavlova's would be even messier than throwing pies.

You ain't never seen a ClarkPie then ...

 

[cirianz]

Ooooooohhhhh........ A challenge!!!! I love a challenge... so, is it pav's & pies at 20 paces then ?

 

[muckshifter]

Ooooooohhhhh........ A challenge!!!! I love a challenge... so, is it pav's & pies at 20 paces then ?

Huh! ... I ain't "throwing" good food around ... but I'll eat you under the table.

 

[cirianz]

Huh! ... I ain't "throwing" good food around ... but I'll eat you under the table.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, yum! Your on !!! Polish up your cutlery & prepare to get reeeeeeaaaal cosey with the carpet !

 

[cirianz]

Sorry to bring it up again but I just had to say... yesturday John's youngest boy (well he's 22 now so not that young) the one who's teacher used to send him out of the class because he was "too stupid to bother teaching", he was around here yesturday so I read the maths problem out to him as mucks had written it. He gave me the answer immediately I finished. Sorry christopher, but after all the flak his teachers used to give him about being stupid he was quite chuffed to know that he'd spotted it before even the 'cambridge guy' had. I reckon you made his day.

 

[ChristopherP]

hehe

I'm often slow to get things like that...

btw www.apu.ac.uk is where i'm headed