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#16 r3k1355

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Posted 23 August 2019 - 03:30 PM

 

The rainforest catches fire and the fire spreads so fast the burnt area doubles in size every day. Fortunately the monsoon arrives and extinguishes the fire 12 days after it started but 1200 acres of forest have been lost.

If the rains had come just a day earlier, how much more forest would have been saved?

600 acres?

 

 

I got 600 too

 

But it depends if the President of Brazil thinks you have an ulterior motive to put the fire out a day earlier.....

 

Yea, it was 600, but then two weeks later government officials came and torched a further 1000 acres to make way for farmland.

 

Big EU-South America trade deal now depends on it, France and Ireland have refused to ratify the deal unless the Brazilians sort it out.



#17 Ethel

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Posted 23 August 2019 - 05:00 PM

Yes 600, it's a comprehension test really.

I rethemed it from one Rylan used on the radio - yes he of the super bright teeth. Took me ages to realise how simple it was ?.

I thinking of it like this one, for which I haven't worked out the answer...

An unidentified Ozzie Moke driver fails to fasten a gate properly and 1200 sheep escape from an outback station.

If he manages to find and round up half the woolly backs before night fall and half of the remainder on each day there after, how many days does it take round up all 1200?

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Posted 23 August 2019 - 08:42 PM

oh no what have i started LOL!



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Posted 23 August 2019 - 10:50 PM

I know, it's enough to drive you to drink isn't it?  :P



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Posted 24 August 2019 - 07:45 PM

at least i know how much to drink now LOL!






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