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davar55

2007-07-14 20:29

Ten Apples

There are ten apples in a basket and ten people in a room.

How do you give each person an apple
and still leave one apple in the basket?

Mini-Geek

2007-07-14 20:34

[spoiler]Give one apple to nine of the ten people. Give the basket (which has the apple inside it) to the tenth person.[/spoiler]

davar55

2007-07-14 21:34

Absolutely correct.

And no controversies or weird math contributions.

And I don't have to make the joke about
generalizing to N apples, do I?

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