If tim has 10 piles of sand and tom has 20 piles of sand and they combine their sand piles how many sand piles do they have all together
2006-08-10 13:52:16 · 24 answers · asked by Carlos P 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
right first?
2006-08-10 18:20:19 · answer #1 · answered by blind_chameleon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1
2006-08-11 05:04:18 · answer #2 · answered by thesosafan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1
2006-08-10 13:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by ray 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1
2006-08-10 13:56:17 · answer #4 · answered by spiffo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anywhere from 1 to 30 piles of sand if they dont break them apart but only 'combine'
Clearly they could lump them all into 1 big pile
They could also leave them seperate giving 30 piles
Or they could make any integer between by combining some piles but not others.
If you allow them to split up piles then you have no limit except to 'm'
Where s is the volume of sand, p is the smallest possible pile in your eyes. and m is the integer such that
s / m < p
is true
EDIT
clearly if p = 0 that is if everything is a pile then m is infinite.
2006-08-10 14:44:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 Pile of sand
2006-08-10 14:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by scott m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One sand pile
2006-08-10 14:22:49 · answer #7 · answered by united9198 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
30
2006-08-10 13:58:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One pile. Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
2006-08-10 14:01:40 · answer #9 · answered by Intelligent and curious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only one, unless they find a way to get all the sand piles there one by one.
2006-08-10 14:25:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
30 sand piles if put together but if mix the piles together it is 1 sandpiles
2006-08-10 15:40:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋