This is a math problem lets say there are 10,000 saylors on a ship in the middle of the ocean. if they all line up around the out side of a ship and are numberd 1 thru 10,000 if they push the first person off then every other person till it goes all the way around, and they keep goin around till they get to the last person what would be the last persons number?
2007-02-01 06:59:25 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
well, let's put it this way:
number 10000 - 9999 - 9998 -... - 3 - 2- 1
so the answer is '''1'''
2007-02-01 07:15:04 · answer #1 · answered by Dirty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you change the saylors o_O into dominoes then if you set up 10,000 of them and set them off then under ideal circumstances all 10,000 will fall. The last one to fall would be # 10,000.
2007-02-01 15:12:45 · answer #2 · answered by mazaker2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 10 thousandenth, and its sailor nor saylor.
2007-02-01 15:05:34 · answer #3 · answered by etienne primeau 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here goes...an apostrophe between t and s in lets, ya'll we'll leave alone because i am from the south too., sailors, through, til, no comma, going and an apostrophe between n and s in persons. those are common spelling and grammar errors. and as for the math question...# 10,000.
2007-02-01 15:05:55 · answer #4 · answered by ?! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on who pushed off the first person and which way they were going, clockwise or counter-clockwise.
2007-02-01 15:10:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no such thing as a "saylor" on ships.
2007-02-01 15:06:12 · answer #6 · answered by Kathy O 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1? I thought hard about it. The more i thought about...the more unsure i was.
2007-02-01 15:05:36 · answer #7 · answered by Miss §hopaholic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1000 dahh
2007-02-01 15:37:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
10,000
2007-02-01 15:05:29 · answer #9 · answered by raj 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i say 10,000
2007-02-01 15:02:37 · answer #10 · answered by ~Zaiyonna's Mommy~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋