A man gets up in the morning and decides to go hunting. He travels 10 miles due South and then 10 miles due West. He shoots a bear and then drags him the 10 miles back to his home. What colour is the bear?
2006-12-07 23:11:45 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
would there be any bear left after being dragged ten miles?
2006-12-07 23:14:15 · answer #1 · answered by CHARISMA 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A polar bear weights between 660 and 1300 LBS. Nobody could drag this 10 miles, not even a professional strong man. Even using a powered ice sledge this is impossible. The only way he could have done this is if he shot a baby bear which would have led to him being caught and killed by the enraged mother bear before getting back the full ten miles or him shooting a nursing mother which may weigh as little as a mere 250lbs (still as much as a 2 adult humans) and in which case if the guy actually does go hunting nursing mother polar bears then really he is a despicable coward of a man.
Also although technically edible bear flesh is foul and acrid in flavour like the flesh of most large carnivores.
Also polar bears soon shall be listed as an endangered species and currently hunting them is illegal.
Finally it would be idiotic to have a home on he magnetic north pole as in winter the temparature is -43C (-45F) and in the summer the rise in temparature is enough to crack the ice sheet so the home would sink below the water!
So really such circumstances are beyond possibility.
Anyway the bear would be white.
2006-12-08 07:59:26 · answer #2 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
actually the north pole has nothing to do with this question
and we are dealing with a right angle triangle not an equilateral triangle so the 10 mile straight back home wouldn't compute either. but if you take the sum of the rise and the run which are both 10 miles you would have 10 squared + 10 squared = 200 then the square root of the sum which would equal 14.14 miles to get back home
as far as the colour of the bear who knows lol but i'll have to guess brown
2006-12-08 11:42:11 · answer #3 · answered by seven_ms_man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he goes 10 miles straight south and another 10 miles west and he's then exactly 10 miles from the starting point, he must have started at the North Pole. So the poor bear must have been white.
The direction back to home is straight north.
2006-12-08 07:54:54 · answer #4 · answered by corleone 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if he left his house and went 10 miles south and 10 miles west how did he go only 10 miles to get home
2006-12-08 10:20:56 · answer #5 · answered by joe d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you cant drag a bear 10 miles
2006-12-08 07:13:54 · answer #6 · answered by Steve V 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
White, since he lives in the south? Or is that wrong?
Wait a second...maybe the bear would be brown because the guy was dragging it therefore it would get dirt on it hence it would be brown. Am I right?
2006-12-09 01:29:05 · answer #7 · answered by J31899 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White - the bear is a polar bear (accept polar bears don't go that far north because the climate is to hostile even for them - but I'll play along).
Good Luck!!!
2006-12-08 07:26:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a choice of White, Brown or Black. I reckon there could be something screwy with the directions so I'm going to plump for white; a polar bear.
2006-12-08 07:14:36 · answer #9 · answered by graliv 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He lives at the north pole so therefore the bear is white, a polar bear.
2006-12-08 07:22:04 · answer #10 · answered by looloo1122 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋