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Friday, July 17, 2015
100 pounds of potatoes
This is a riddle in the category
logic riddles
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You have 100 pounds of potatoes, which are 99 percent water by weight.
They dehydrate until they’re 98 percent water.
How much do they weigh now?
See the solution that a gave a friend of this blog
HERE
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September 6, 2015 at 6:35 PM
50lbs
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September 6, 2015 at 6:36 PM
1 lbs => 0.01% : total = 1 / 0.01 = 100
1 lbs => 0.02% : total = 1 / 0.02 = 50
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ReplyDelete1 lbs => 0.01% : total = 1 / 0.01 = 100
ReplyDelete1 lbs => 0.02% : total = 1 / 0.02 = 50