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Half Empty or Half Full with help from Curly and Mo.... email this discussion to a friend?

myLot reputation of 86/100. indiandevil (1291)4 years ago

There is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. "This barrel of wine is more than half full," said Curly. "No it's not," says Mo. "It's less than half full."

Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?

 
 
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kamran12 (1807) response was accepted on 5/11/2007.
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1. myLot reputation of 70/100. kamran12 (1807)   3 years ago

You can solve it by trigonometry, if the diameter of barrel is uniform. Just tilt the barrel such that the wine just touches the upper surface/edge on one side, making a hypotenus from base of barrel to surface. Now if the bottom/base of the barrel is visible than it is less than half filled and if the bottom is not visible it is more than half filled. Does it make any sense!?


myLot reputation of 86/100. indiandevil (1291)  3 years ago

Makes Since to me!

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