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Derrick's Theory
Captain Derrick Washington is one of the four captains of the Timberland Tigers basketball team. Derrick has this theory: If he drinks water every 8 minutes, milk every 12 minutes, and coffee every 14 minutes, he will do better in that day's game. If Derrick woke up at 9:30am and drank all three drinks at 9:35am, what is the latest time he would have drank all three drinks at the same time if his game starts at 7:30pm?
Answer
5:59pmIt took 168 minutes, or 2 hours and 48 minutes, for Derrick to drink all of them at the same time again. If you repeatedly add 2 hours and 48 minutes to 9:35am, you'll find the last time prior to the game that all drinks were had at the same time was at 5:59pm.
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Creative and Clever
so..Is his theory right or wrong?
lol
so..Is his theory right or wrong?
lol
more clever than creativity but im gonig to have to give it a 9.5/10 because of its very nice cleverness
im gonig to give it a 9.567958312/10 because it was quite the enjoyable teaser
Well, I gotr the 168 ok, but muffed the addition!
Aug 10, 2007
good one, i love math
The expected answer was easy, but I was wondering how Derrick drank all three drinks at the same time...
Too easy because I'm like that. Good teaser.
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