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40 X 30
You see a strainer. The measurements of it are the following:
40 feet in height
30 feet in width
Considering these measurements, how much water, at most, can it hold?
40 feet in height
30 feet in width
Considering these measurements, how much water, at most, can it hold?
Hint
Drawing a diagram might help.Answer
No water.A strainer does not hold water.
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That was a pretty easy teaser.
that was a good one.. me and my friend are blondes and couldn't figure it out.. very fun!!!!
TOO EASY!
Way easy but way fun.
Hey, no one said teasers had to be THAT difficult, peeps. Besides, I don't see y'all comin' up with any harder ones.
technically, if you were to fill it to the top, although the amount of water wouldn't be consistent, it would still be holding water. I guess it depends on what you class as holding it. In this case, i'm assuming that you mean holding it so that none is escaping in any way. Either way, it depends on perception. My initial thought was nothing, but then I thought... ummm... no, it's dependent on ur preception. Anyway, enough from me, I enjoyed it.
O.o
I liked this teaser, it was very clever
there will there still be water it can hold ,imagine pouring water in it in between the strainer u will see waterparticles, its like washing a plate draining it immediately then u can see droplets of water particles. In my opinion this brain teaser is not scientific.
No crap, Sherlock. That's why this teaser is in the "Trick" category.
Ahhh, yes, thank you spookboy, for making me laugh today! I found this fantastic! Who cares if you get the answer right away! I found that my favorite part was actually the "hint," considering I kept imagining silly blonds in labcoats, etching on a blackboard, trying to deduce the answer. And of course your retort to longlong put the icing on the cake! Bravisimo!
I'm not really good in math but that was an easy one....but its pretty good!
this was the easiest one i've seen yet on this site!! pretty dull.
Ya know, you'd think that if you're not into easy teasers, you'd have the brainpower to realize that you shouldn't click on teasers with easy ratings. But, se la idiot... =P
i loved the hint it made me even more confused but i did figure it out before i checked the answer.
That was very very smart, but a bit too obvious. Next time try to make it a bit more challenging.
hahahahaha you had me working out 30x40 to find the area, and all that crap.
it was funny.
it was funny.
Hey Happymonkey13, if you are a HAPPY!monkey, then how come you have an angry face in your comment?
Well, I got this right away, but you know what's funny? The measurements give the impression that the strainer is a rectangular prism rather than half a sphere. I don't know, that just struck me as amusing. It would be more accurate to call the width the diameter if you wanted it to look like a real strainer... Of course, it doesn't really matter since the measurements are just to throw you off.
note to editor I think this is a dupe only the dupe is not with a strianer
I agree with goldmare.
Jan 25, 2005
Lolololol....Im still laughing at it!
That was a pretty good trick.......Bravo good sir...Bravo!
That was a pretty good trick.......Bravo good sir...Bravo!
boring. solved it before even finishing the question.
Very cool!!
Listen people, I don't really care about how easy it is to y'all. If it is as easy as y'all proclaim, why come didn't y'all think of it first?
maybe cause we'all dont think of easy teasers i think it is a dupe but good effort
I got that one... Pretty good!
That was very cute. I got it immediately but then just had to ask my husband - he sat there for a minute and said that logic says something like 120 whatever....then he gets a funny look on his face and says "It's a strainer - it won't hold any water." His hesitation, no matter how brief, made this teaser well worth my time!!!
and as goldmare said, these are the measurements for a rectangle, not half a sphere. some people are fooled and some arent
o spook you can do better
That was tooooooooo EASY!!!!!!!!!!!
Easy Peasy.........Now if you count ice as water then you could freeze a lot of water and it would hold water BUT i know wat it was askingt so i got it right in no time
Wow! How did I not get that? Great Job!
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You made my day!!!!!
You made my day!!!!!
I got it right away since it was mad easy!! i loved the hint though !!
I am so dumb i got confused. :
yikes i actually didnt know, i didnt even read it!
I think the hint didn't really help, it leads people on to something else...otherwise it was really fun...i almost got tricked...
The hint was my favorite part!!! Funny and cute, and easy, which means I like it b/c I could actually get it!
my main problem was, how do you expect us to measure volume with only 2 of 3 dimensions? how deep is the vessel!! at least make the problem workable...
im so stupid... haha i cant stop laffing at myself
coryphaeus, some types of strainers are flat, not all are semi-spherical
that teaser was very, very, very, very easy...tooo, tooo, toooooo easy
that teaser was very, very, very, very easy...tooo, tooo, toooooo easy
It was cute. I think one reason a lot of teasers in the "Trick" category are so easy is because we automatically know that there will be a trick in them.
how was it cute... it was tricky...big difference, not even similar.
That was a good one. You really have to read the question more then once to get the right answer. I liked it.
easy but fun
It would have held water until it all drained out, and how was the hint supposed to help? That practically tells you to find the volume of the strainer!
I wasn't paying attention to the word "strainer," so, I got it wrong. I said that you could tell because you don't know what the length is.
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