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Fishing Rod
Mad Ade rides the bus to the local Hardware Store. While there he buys a fishing pole that's 5 feet long. As Mad Ade goes to get on the bus to go home, he is stopped by the bus driver. The bus driver tells him he can't board the bus with anything over 4 feet long.
Mad Ade goes back to the Hardware store and buys one thing then returns and boards the bus.
The pole can not be cut, bent, broken, or taken apart. What did the Mad Ade buy to allow him to board the bus with the fishing pole?
Mad Ade goes back to the Hardware store and buys one thing then returns and boards the bus.
The pole can not be cut, bent, broken, or taken apart. What did the Mad Ade buy to allow him to board the bus with the fishing pole?
Answer
A box 4' X 3'. He then puts the pole in diagonally.Hide Answer
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Nice one. Reminds me of the Pitagoras sentence(I thinks that's his name)-
3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2
3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2
My sixth grade math teacher gave this to me many years ago as an extra credit problem on a test 
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Way to beat the system! See kiddies, math and geometry pay off! 
If it's a good rod, he could probably just use the line from the reel and a hook on one of the lower eyelets of the pole to cause the pole to curve in on itself. It'd probably be possible to get it down to 4 feet, at least long enough to get past the driver.
It was probably only a 4 foot rod anyway. You know what fishermen are like with their measurements. 
That was brilliant!
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