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Problem One: Moving Troubles

Oct 26th, 2006 by tony

Here’s a puzzle involving a fair amount of analysis and calculation, but I rather enjoyed doing it.

Allen and Percy were helping their good-tempered teacher Ms. Letourneau move to a new house. There were 16 small boxes and 10 large boxes. Allen takes 2 minutes to move each small box and 6 minutes to move each large box while Percy takes 3 minutes to move each small box and 5 minutes to move each large box. They start moving after school at 4:00pm, and spent 30 minutes to discuss the best strategy to spend the least time moving boxes before getting to work. When is the earliest time they could finish?

Note: They can’t hand off the boxes in the middle of the trip.

Update: Solutions are posted!

Posted in Logical, Mathematical | 3 Comments

3 Responses to “Problem One: Moving Troubles”

  1. on 27 Oct 2006 at 5:41 pm   Percy

    Haha, I enjoyed reading the problem. I don’t think I can solve it though.

  2. on 31 Oct 2006 at 12:17 pm   Levy

    i hope this is the answer->5:18pm

  3. on 31 Oct 2006 at 11:50 pm   tony

    close but no cigar

    They can actually take less time than that

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