2008-01-11

Pop quiz

art by Wayne Thiebaud
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One machine has six balls more than another. The first machine is 75% more compact than the third and two of them have half the green balls of the seventh combined. This painting was painted before California Health and Safety Code Section 113781 but before the Great Gum Crisis of '73.

How many gumballs total are in the three gum machines and how many are in the middle one specifically?

average time: sixty-four seconds

8 comments:

  1. Is this just a cruel joke to make me waste time?

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  2. .

    Bzzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer!

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  3. 9,554 in all 3.


    Am I close?







    ;)

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  4. Wait a minute, how many machines are there? The painting only shows three, but "two of them have half the green balls of the seventh combined"? The seventh? And combined with what?

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  5. Oh. And the CHSCS113781 link doesn't work--for me, at least; just brings up a blank page.

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