[quote]Renton wrote:
Ok - A guy wakes up every week day in his apartment on the 20th floor.
He gets ready for work, leaves the apartment, takes the elevator to the ground floor and goes to work.
In the evening he returns, takes the elevator to the 14th floor and climbs the stairs to the 20th and home.
Why?[/quote]
He’s a midget and can only reach to up to the 14th button.
[quote]Renton wrote:
Ok - A guy wakes up every week day in his apartment on the 20th floor.
He gets ready for work, leaves the apartment, takes the elevator to the ground floor and goes to work.
In the evening he returns, takes the elevator to the 14th floor and climbs the stairs to the 20th and home.
Why?[/quote]
isn’t this supposed to also say that on days it rains he goes to the 20th floor, on days it does not he goes to the 14th and walks up the rest.
thesixteenth, spot on.
doogie, again, spot on.
ReklaW - damn I knew I missed a bit!
[quote]Renton wrote:
No guesses for the guy in the elevator yet?
How about …
Two oil drums (or any other liquid) - the first has a 2 inch diameter hole drilled in it’s base, the second has 2 x 1 inch diameter holes.
Assuming both drums started with the same amount of liquid, which would empty fastest and why?[/quote]
The 2nd drum will empty first.
The first one won’t empty at all–you need a 2nd hole to let the air in.
[quote]dragonmamma wrote:
Renton wrote:
No guesses for the guy in the elevator yet?
How about …
Two oil drums (or any other liquid) - the first has a 2 inch diameter hole drilled in it’s base, the second has 2 x 1 inch diameter holes.
Assuming both drums started with the same amount of liquid, which would empty fastest and why?
The 2nd drum will empty first.
The first one won’t empty at all–you need a 2nd hole to let the air in.
[/quote]
Are you sure about that? Test your hypothesis by turning a bottle of water upside down, make sure the only hole in it is the opening. Report back.
[quote]ReklaW wrote:
Renton wrote:
Ok - A guy wakes up every week day in his apartment on the 20th floor.
He gets ready for work, leaves the apartment, takes the elevator to the ground floor and goes to work.
In the evening he returns, takes the elevator to the 14th floor and climbs the stairs to the 20th and home.
Why?
isn’t this supposed to also say that on days it rains he goes to the 20th floor, on days it does not he goes to the 14th and walks up the rest.[/quote]
He uses his umbrella to press the button?
[quote]Renton wrote:
Ok - A guy wakes up every week day in his apartment on the 20th floor.
He gets ready for work, leaves the apartment, takes the elevator to the ground floor and goes to work.
In the evening he returns, takes the elevator to the 14th floor and climbs the stairs to the 20th and home.
Why?[/quote]
Because he lifts weights after work, and likes to get in a bit of cardio afterwards.
[quote]tedro wrote:
dragonmamma wrote:
Renton wrote:
No guesses for the guy in the elevator yet?
How about …
Two oil drums (or any other liquid) - the first has a 2 inch diameter hole drilled in it’s base, the second has 2 x 1 inch diameter holes.
Assuming both drums started with the same amount of liquid, which would empty fastest and why?
The 2nd drum will empty first.
The first one won’t empty at all–you need a 2nd hole to let the air in.
Are you sure about that? Test your hypothesis by turning a bottle of water upside down, make sure the only hole in it is the opening. Report back.
[/quote]
I think that’s just because the water bottle is so much smaller, so the bottle-to-hole ratio isn’t big enough.
I planted tomatoes in wine barrels a few years ago; it wasn’t until I had watered them for a week that I realized I had forgotten to drill holes for drainage. Drilled one hole–nothing happened. As soon as a second hole was drilled, the water started pouring out.
As soon as I posted that, I suddenly wondered why it did that, since the top of the barrel was open to the air?
I guess it takes a while for the air to get through the soil; there was air in the bottom where I had put in a few inches of rocks underneath the soil.
All I know is, that’s what happened!
[quote]Renton wrote:
Here’s another …
You are faced with two doors and each of the doors has a guardian. If you go through the wrong door you die. If you go through the right door you live.
One guardian always tells the truth and the other always lies. You don’t know which is which though.
You are allowed one question to one guardian to try and figure out which door to go through.
What’s your question?[/quote]
Ask the guardian which door the other guardian would say to walk through for you to live, then walk through the opposite door.
So Doogie and you were actually wrong… Not that I care. Heh.
[quote]tedro wrote:
ReklaW wrote:
Renton wrote:
Ok - A guy wakes up every week day in his apartment on the 20th floor.
He gets ready for work, leaves the apartment, takes the elevator to the ground floor and goes to work.
In the evening he returns, takes the elevator to the 14th floor and climbs the stairs to the 20th and home.
Why?
isn’t this supposed to also say that on days it rains he goes to the 20th floor, on days it does not he goes to the 14th and walks up the rest.
He uses his umbrella to press the button?
[/quote]
Exactly, and why would he do that?
Out of necessity, perhaps?