Or I guess it is. I was watching "Die Hard With A Vengeance" the other night being bored as hell and having seen only small parts of the thing over the years. So I thought I'd just finish up something started and never completed.
A lot of you might have seen this flick where Bruce and Samuel L. encounter a puzzle set up by the terrorists they were pursuing. A pair of bottles were left at a fountain, one a 3 gallon and the other a 5. The challenge was to fill ONE bottle with Exactly 4 gal. and place it on a scale. If it didn't weigh 4 gallons worth, they get blown up (typical Willis or Gibson film)
That's about when a commercial break came and I left the room. When I got back, they were on to something else. I didn't see the answer. But anyone who saw this knows the solution and I imagine this has been circulating around middle school math classes for years.
I was irritated and set out to figure it for myself. I'll admit while making a snack and having some wine, it took some time to figure it out. I'm guessing 3 minutes. Not much of an SAT score for ol' Zeke, huh?
But, for those of you that never saw this or have never seen the exercise, give it a shot. Come back with your time, but leave out the answer until the thread gets a chance. If 's that simple, then have a good laugh on me.
Then take it to your wife. I find many women to not be too spatially oriented. I'm in the replacement window business (such as it is these days) and 90% of my customers are women. It gets interesting sometimes dealing with sizes and shapes (not the women
). I do a lot of mock ups to show relationships for the spatially challenged. Especially windows that project from the wall.
But, I digress. Do the math.