Poor Farmer
"You have four straight fencing of one yard, two yards, three yards, and four yards", "What ever area you can enclose in those four will be yours" said the King. The poor Farmer, if only he had listened to his maths teacher could have maximized this opportunity. Luckily he came to ToM. Now only YOU can help. Will you ?
* Assume: Nothing
* Assume: Nothing
Labels: mathemagic, outside-the-box
posted by Rajesh Lal at
11:33 AM
12 Comments:
Make whatever quadrilateral you want and then stand in the middle and declare yourself on the outside of the obtained area
Altenatively you could make a shape that was as circular as possible.
Put the fence around the throne and then the poor farmer will be king!!!
Put the fence around the throne and then the poor farmer will be king!!!
Fence in a really expensive area, like downtown New York.
To the First anonymous guy
Thats a very interesting solution, but I can bet that can still be optimized and that boils down to the question of "Minimizing the Opportunity"
well u could use the base of the 4, and combine the 1 and 2 to make another 3, thus u can create an isosolese triangle and therefore the greatest area possibly achieved, without claiming the outside land of ur own, this is a pheseible mathmatical solution
BUILD A HOOP THAT HE COULD HANG FROM HIS SHOULDERS SO ANY WHERE HE WALKED WAS HIS
the question to the problem is "will you help" and i wont help unless there is a reward
I'm hoping it's a picket fence, in which case the farmer should take each plank out piece by piece to make a very lengthy boundary!
-but I like the hoop suggestion too.
*giselle*
let TOM help him...why shud I????
What if each fence were laid down on top of the ground, i mean why waste owning the space above the ground when in fact its the land your after.
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