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Andrew's neighbor asked him to take care of their rabbits while they were gone. The instructions are as follows:
1. Fill food bowl in morning.
2. Give each a carrot at lunch.
3. Fill food bowl again at dinnertime.
4. Check water bowl.
When the neighbors came back they found all the rabbits dead from malnutrition. Andrew protested, saying that he had followed the instructions exactly. How could he have followed the instructions and still have let the rabbits die?
1. Fill food bowl in morning.
2. Give each a carrot at lunch.
3. Fill food bowl again at dinnertime.
4. Check water bowl.
When the neighbors came back they found all the rabbits dead from malnutrition. Andrew protested, saying that he had followed the instructions exactly. How could he have followed the instructions and still have let the rabbits die?
Answer
Instruction number 4 says to check water bowl, not fill it up! They died of dehydration.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Jun 24, 2003
the puzzle says they died of malnutrition yet the answer says they died of dehydration! which is right?
There is nutrition in water, so they could have died of both.
Not bad!
there is no nutrition in water, it is just used to move nutrition around. Unless it is some sort of miniral water.
there is no nutrition in water, it is just used to move nutrition around. Unless it is some sort of miniral water. Shouldn;t this be a trick teaser?
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Actually water is a nutrient. It is a micronutrient like vitamins and minerals, not a macronutrient like fat, protien, or carbohydrate. But it still would have been better to have left out the malnutrition and just said they were found dead.
It says fill food bowl, but not fill it with food thats another answer
It said CHECK the water bowl, not fill it with water just check it . Thats another answer.
another possible answer is that he could have done all 4 things (including FILLING the water bowl), but only once. if they were gone for several days, the rabbits could have died of malnutrition, as the instructions do not say to repeat every day.
I think what we can all take from this is that this guy should never be responsible for anything of the slightest importance. XD
It's like one of the very first engineers of computers. She commented once that her shampoo instructions said wash hair with shampoo, rinse hair, then repeat. So she ran out of shampoo, instructions didn't say to stop lol
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