a man has 4000 bananas, and also has a box, which can carry 1000 bananas at a time. since the box is too heavy a camel carries it for him. the man needs to get from point a to point b, which is 500 miles with the most bananas possible. however, the camel eats one banana every mile. what is the most amount of bananas the man can take from point a to point b.
2006-07-03 06:22:47 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
ok if it doesnt eat a banana every mile it dies...
you only have one camel
2006-07-03 06:38:02 · update #1
the man cannot carry the bananas because theyre too heavy
the camel can travel one mile on one banana no matter the weight of the box
2006-07-03 06:40:23 · update #2
ok added hint
you can drop off any number of bananas at any mile marker, or any fraction of a mile marker
2006-07-03 07:01:53 · update #3
The maximum number of bananas is not an obvious number like 1000, or 500, but rather something like (ex 277)
2006-07-06 10:14:14 · update #4
well da chet got closest w/o going over
2006-07-06 11:45:17 · update #5
900 bananas. You make a trip of 375 miles with 1000 bananas and drop off 250 bananas at that mile mark and you have enough bananas to get the camel back to where you started. Camel uses 750 bananas in a round trip. Make the same trip two more times. When you get back you have 1000 bananas left at point A. Now take the last 1000 and go all the way to point B at which point you will be dropping off 375 bananas. Then take 125 bananas you have left, go back to the drop off point you made between A and B and pick up the last 750 bananas and lose 125 bananas making the last trip to point B which gives you 525 you arrive with. All together that gives you 900.
2006-07-03 10:20:21 · answer #1 · answered by da chet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He should be able to get 500 bananas to point b. The first trip that he takes 1000 he drops a banana each mile and feeds the camel a banana. this happens each trip except the last where the camel does not have to come back and thus only eats 500 of the 1000 bananas
2006-07-03 14:16:28 · answer #2 · answered by Walt C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how many bananas the man can carry to feed the camel. The more the man carries, the less come out of the box, and his load gets lighter as he travels.
2006-07-03 13:28:36 · answer #3 · answered by Russell H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2000
2006-07-03 13:26:31 · answer #4 · answered by my brain hurts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
500
camel eats 1000 bananas per two-way trip, so the only way is to travel one way, keep 500 bananas and let that fat bastard starve
if you have 4 camels, you can get 2000 bananas.
2006-07-03 13:25:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
2000 bananas. each of four trips, 1000 bananas will be carried. 500 will make it out of each trip. 500*4=2000
2006-07-03 13:29:36 · answer #6 · answered by dave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how many bananas can the man carry by himself...1?, 5?, 10?, 50?. This information is definately needed.
2006-07-03 13:29:52 · answer #7 · answered by kmclean48 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
500, any more than that and they would be all gone by the time you got back to where you started to get the rest.
-Duo
2006-07-03 13:29:54 · answer #8 · answered by Duo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're just giving me the hump with this question!
2006-07-03 14:09:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
who gives a sh..
2006-07-03 13:25:58 · answer #10 · answered by Gizmo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋