snowmen

[joihngalt]

1.5 people can make 1.5 snowmen in 1.5 hours<br>how many snowmen can 2 people make in 3 hours?<br>show work please

 

[burakaltr]

1.5 people can make 1.5 snowmen in 1.5 hours<br>how many snowmen can 2 people make in 3 hours?<br>show work please

1.5 snowmen / 1.5 hrs = 1 sm/h is the rate of 1.5 ppl.

So 2/3 rds of that is the rate of 1 person

2/3 sm/h = Rate of a person

in 3 hrs 1 person makes (2/3) *3 = 2 sm

where 2 ppl

double that

2*2 =

4 snowmen

is the Answer !

 

[lookagain]

1.5 people can make 1.5 snowmen in 1.5 hours<br>how many
snowmen can 2 people make in 3 hours?<br>show work please

Really, you cant make 1.5 snowmen. There would have to be a whole number of snowmen.

It's analogous to asking how many holes can be dug. You can dig only a whole
number of holes.

Edit

A snowman typically has a largest bottom section, a smaller midsection,
and a smallest section for the head. It wouldn't make sense to think about building
half of a snowman (to be added to any whole number of snowmen).

 

[Mrspi]

Really, you cant make 1.5 snowmen. There would have to be a whole number of snowmen.

It's analogous to asking how many holes can be dug. You can dig only a whole
number of holes.

Edit

A snowman typically has a largest bottom section, a smaller midsection,
and a smallest section for the head. It wouldn't make sense to think about building
half of a snowman (to be added to any whole number of snowmen).

Ok...

My granddad used to ask this question: "If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take 6 chickens to lay a dozen eggs?"

Are we going to quibble about whether it is possible to have "half a chicken" or "half an egg"?

 

[lookagain]

Ok...

My granddad used to ask this question: "If a chicken and a half
can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it
take 6 chickens to lay a dozen eggs?"

\(\displaystyle \text{Then, your granddad was wrong to ask the question in the first place.}\)
\(\displaystyle \text{Making the alleged anecdotal fact about your relative asking}\)
\(\displaystyle \text{that question is not germane here.}\)

Are we going to quibble about whether it is possible to have
"half a chicken" or "half an egg"?

No, the "quibbling" doesn't happen just as your granddad's question was wrong to
start with. There is nothing petty as I am calling out the problem statement as
bogus.

 

[lookagain]

Disagree. A hole has no bottom. \(\displaystyle \text{No, that is not necessarily true.}\)
It can be a pit or . . .
See link below.

Source:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hole

If we dig, we can call our work a hole only once we "come out"
the other side: Again, that is not necessarily so. See the same link above.

\(\displaystyle > > \)like drilling through a sphere. \(\displaystyle < < \)
That is only one of the types of holes.

So if we're 25% of the way, we've dug 1/4 of a hole.
That example does not apply. My meaning is about a pit/depression into
the ground. So the "percent of the way" (as in through the Earth)
does not apply.
In the meaning that **I** am using, then, there is nothing as half a hole;
either there is a (one) hole dug or there is no hole dug, regardless of the size of the hole.

So, if someone digs down to make space for a grave and then digs down
somewhere else to half the depth of the grave, there are not

\(\displaystyle 1 \dfrac{1}{2}\) holes; there are two holes.
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The other 60 lines or so have been discarded.

 

[lookagain]

1.5 people can make 1.5 snowmen in 1.5 hours<br>how many snowmen
can 2 people make in 3 hours?<br>show work please

Of course it's about averages!



OP (and I don't mean Ron Howard's character from "The Andy Griffith Show"),

here's an amended question that would make sense to me and be reasonable:


"An average of 1.5 people can make an average of 1.5 snowmen

in an average of 1.5 hours. On average, how many snowmen can

2 people make in 3 hours?"


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I got a snowman's opinion here:


http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/professor_mathsite/534248