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The Extra 40 Pounds

 

The Puzzler


RAY: This came from a fellow named Josh Kokendolfer who says, "This is a true story”:

 

It was a brisk December morning. A co-worker and I had a simple job to do that day: clean out a job site and take the trash to the local landfill. And we had an F-350 pickup that was outfitted with a dump-truck bed. We filled it up and headed out. When we arrived at the landfill we pulled the truck onto the scale that weighed our vehicle and the woman in the office waved us through.

 

We unloaded and headed back out to the scale. Once again our truck was weighed. Before getting into the truck I noticed that one of the back tires was low. I decided to stop at one of the local gas stations to check it out and fill all the tires just in case.

 

After lunch we loaded the truck a second time at the site and headed back to the landfill. Everything went just like the first time. After we were weighed on exiting, I went to pay the bill. My co-worker looked at the paperwork and noticed something strange.

 

The first time we left we weighed 6,480 lbs. And the second time we exited we weighed 6,440 lbs - a difference of 40 lbs. We were being charged for an extra 40 pounds of trash that we didn't have. I immediately complained to the office manager. She grinned and said, "There's nothing wrong with our scales." Well, if that's the case, what happened?


 

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The Asymmetric Commute

 

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RAY: Two young guys are discussing their jobs. One says, "I set my trip odometer the first day I started my job and the round trip is exactly 20 miles."

"Wow, that's great," the other guy says. "I wish my job was only 10 miles from home."

"Oh, no," number one guy says, "it's only 5 miles to get to work, but 15 miles to get home."

"What are you driving, an ice cream truck or something like that?"

"No, no, no, no."

"Oh, I know, you're taking a detour to visit your girlfriend."

"Nope, not at all. I drive directly from home to work, taking the shortest route. And I return from work, also taking the shortest route. No detours, no side trips. I come directly home and it's 15 miles to get home, making it a 20-mile round-trip to work and home from work."

And he goes on to say: "Last week the boss called and asked me to report to another location for a few days to fill in for someone who was on vacation. Ready for this? On those days I drove 15 miles to get to work, but then the ride home was only 5 miles."

The question is - how can this be?

 

 

RAY: I guess there are other possible answers than the one that we came up with, but let's assume that guy number one works at some place like a fast-food restaurant on the highway. So he gets on the highway near his house and drives five miles to work. But to get home, he's got to drive to the next exit which is five miles away, to turn around and come back. So that’s five miles to the exit, another five miles just to get to the opposite side of the highway from his workplace, and then five miles to his house. So who’s our winner?

RAY: I guess there are other possible answers than the one that we came up with, but let's assume that guy number one works at some place like a fast-food restaurant on the highway. So he gets on the highway near his house and drives five miles to work. But to get home, he's got to drive to the next exit which is five miles away, to turn around and come back. So that’s five miles to the exit, another five miles just to get to the opposite side of the highway from his workplace, and then five miles to his house. So who’s our winner?

 



-- Edited by ed11563 on Monday 31st of August 2015 11:40:36 AM

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I got last week's Puzzler.

Now my idea for the 40 pound question:

 

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Other ideas?



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ed11563 wrote:

I got last week's Puzzler.

Now my idea for the 40 pound question:

 

Spoiler

 

 

Other ideas?

But the truck weighed 40 pounds less, after they put air in the tires, ed.confuse

I doubt the difference in weight, had anything to do with the tires.

My guess is, they burned enough gas to account for the weight loss. 



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