Here's another solution. Using today's new rules of Equity, cut one apple in half and give each boy a half. Give the girl the remaining whole apple to make up for past injustices to her great grandmother.
Of course, the one in the middle is at a disadvantage. Either of the two on the ends could use one swipe to take out both of the others, thereby taking both apples for themselves ;)
brilliant, but for the fact that, at the time of this pictured dilemma, the apple trees are no more ~ due to the too-belatedly-recognised effects of capitalism. the invalid assumption of "there's always more supply!" of the natural world strikes again.
That would've worked a few years ago, but now we don't even know who's a boy and who's a girl. Random assignments by some doctor at birth. Now, whoever identifies as most victimized gets both apples, and if one identifies as transgender, the whole world needs to bring them apples.
We know the problems. Our systems are corrupted. It is time to organize and fix them.
Decentralize everything. Demand transparency. Weaponize the tyranny of the masses back onto the people corrupting our systems and end the Global Agenda.
Also understand systems better and how important they are. If you tell us the kind of systems that govern over you, we can accurately predict your quality of life.
Hmmm but the stated problem is "three" want to share. If any die, then three are not sharing and does not solve the problem? On the other hand, if it's possible to share with dead, then problem also states "equally", so problem still isn't solved by one or more dying?
Okay so plan B and reading the "exact" criteria it's obvious to this kitten. You only get 1 slice so you will have 4 half pieces. Everyone gets 1/4 with one piece left (nowhere does it say ALL 4 pieces have to be shared).
Your math is fuzzy. Each person gets a 1/3 share. But there are 2 apples and 3 people. So each person gets 2/3 of an apple. So Happiness was correct. Cut 1/3 off of each apple so one person gets two apple pieces and the other two get 1 large apple piece each.
What shape are your apples? I couldn't cut a third off one apple, let alone place/attack two to do the same. There's no symmetry on any apple I've got making that possible!
You are emphasizing the wrong word. It is not "*three* want to share two apples equally." It is "three *want* to share two apples equally." Stab one and the survivors each get an apple. All three "wants" are satisfied.
We can share this apple consumption event by reading a magazine or watching a movie depicting the other two eating the apple. That's how our economy works.
Just because you want something doesn't mean you get it. The important thing is that the apples have to be shared, so that rules out killing two of the three.
Actually, the greater good here is involved. If the majority of people get what they want, (2 of the 3 will get apple) then its OK. Individual rights are trumped by the greater good. Remember that. Otherwise, you are killing Grandma.
Well obviously you do one long slash across all three children, not enough to kill them but enough to make them bleed. Now they will fear you. Then you take the apples and explain that they will be redistributed at a later date for the good of the group. Eat the apples in private. Let the children go hungry for a while. Blame their hunger on the evil apple growers who didn't grow enough apples for everyone to share equally. Once they are convinced that the evil apple growers are responsible for their plight you give them stale bread from the evil apple growers bread box. Now they will love you but also still fear you cause you served them with the knife that still had their dried blood on it. Now all three children will be equal but happy.
Well, there are two other options besides murder. 1) ask why we’re following stupid rules in which 3 able-bodied people with a total of 6 arms will get one chance to cut the apples equitably. There’s that.
But if it’s a magic djinni knife and you really only get 1 cut before he takes it away forever, 2) stack the apples on top of each other, or line them up, so that one-third of one apple is exposed at the cut where two-thirds of the other apple is cut. Two children get the two larger pieces, and one gets the two smaller pieces left over.
Source experience: I have five awesome children and we live on a modest income. But my knives are not disposable, one-time use knives so I guess we have it pretty good.
Fun fact: I’m typing this on an iPhone and it kept capitalizing “Apple” --there we go again--every time I typed the word. My phone’s designer is egocentric.
Ah, the magical djinni knife! Another explanation. I wondered if maybe the knife was near the end of its warranty period and we expected it to break after one more slice due to engineered/planned obsolescence. Or maybe it’s a rental/leased knife, obtained through a subscription service with only one more slice left on this month’s plan, and the problem-writer is trying to avoid the overage charge they’d get if they sliced twice?
This reliable 8, which I bought used, will last beyond the apocalypse. The cockroaches that survive the nukes can message each other on it long after we’re all gone.
The question says, “three people WANT to share...”
But since one of them is a white, male and has way too much privilege it’s obvious that he deserves none of the apples. The girl and the boy of color simply call him a racist and misogynist and white supremacist. Then they each take an apple and tell him to fuck off and die.
"Equally" here means - approximate, best effort? - Tricky with asymmetrical and not exactly equal apples - but line 'em up and slice both at the 2/3rds / 1/3rd mark - right? (I did NOT think of the second solution until prompted.) - And - also - the slicer chooses his or her portion last.
Hubs got it right away...I, on the other hand, am a dark soul. He needs to sleep with his door locked. Lol. But I sleep right next to him, so there is that.
Stack one apple on top of the other, slice straight down the middle. Collect tax from each child. Use tax as payment for the apples. Send all pieces of apples to Ukraine. Collect kickbacks for yourself and don't forget the big guy.
This seemed more like a mom problem than math challenge. I'd stack the apples and slice one third off the side of two and then the kiddies could fight over the 2/3 in piece or whole.
1. Cutting 2 apples with 1 slice depends upon my accuracy slicing off 1/3 of each apple when placed in a row (horizontal or vertical) and making just one slice. Give or take a little but the apples can be shared evenly without any more effort.
2. Stand between each of the other candidates. Flip a coin. HEADS, the person on the right gets knifed. TAILS, the person on the left gets knifed.
Here's another solution. Using today's new rules of Equity, cut one apple in half and give each boy a half. Give the girl the remaining whole apple to make up for past injustices to her great grandmother.
you didn't consider the race and sexuality of the others you racist bigot.
What about the PoC and other marginalised communities that are disproportionately affected?
You've got to take diversity, equity and inclusion into account when sharing.
And lest I forget, Ukraine needs support, and Brazil too!!
That's the great thing about sharing under marxism; you don't need more apples, just more knives.
I was going to say off the girl and split the two apples ... or cut another apple from the tree, and they all get one.
The first suggestion is the correct one. Killing off one of the children so that demand conforms with supply is how you achieve Equity under Marxism.
Increasing the supply of applies to meet the demand is free market capitalism and is evil.
Of course, the one in the middle is at a disadvantage. Either of the two on the ends could use one swipe to take out both of the others, thereby taking both apples for themselves ;)
Is the Enik (however you spell it) from Land of the Lost?
You win the prize! At least someone is old enough to remember the classics.
It's not murder, it's euthanasia. You're sparing one from agonizing death by starvation. All legal in the great white north.
Or less people, that’s usually their default position.
brilliant insight
Yep. One of the boys is gay, so he gets the bigger half (again, to make up for past injustices).
Merging together your solution, Jam Beau's, and my snark, I made a meme. Feel free share it. Or condemn it.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52626600772_7870254c9b_h.jpg
Fantastic. If it turns into a money maker, how do we share the profits without using a knife?
I'm keeping all the profits and moving to SBF's old house in the Bahamas. I hear it's being offered at a fire sale price.
brilliant, but for the fact that, at the time of this pictured dilemma, the apple trees are no more ~ due to the too-belatedly-recognised effects of capitalism. the invalid assumption of "there's always more supply!" of the natural world strikes again.
LMAO!! damn right! And I want my reparations only in the form of Pie!!
That would've worked a few years ago, but now we don't even know who's a boy and who's a girl. Random assignments by some doctor at birth. Now, whoever identifies as most victimized gets both apples, and if one identifies as transgender, the whole world needs to bring them apples.
We know the problems. Our systems are corrupted. It is time to organize and fix them.
Decentralize everything. Demand transparency. Weaponize the tyranny of the masses back onto the people corrupting our systems and end the Global Agenda.
Also understand systems better and how important they are. If you tell us the kind of systems that govern over you, we can accurately predict your quality of life.
Embrace decentralized and transparent systems.
Fear centralized ones.
Know the difference:
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/embrace-decentralized-systems-fear
Brilliant!!
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nice idea
I thought of the second one right away LOL. Stab one of the people, the surviving 2 get 1 apple each.
Hmmm but the stated problem is "three" want to share. If any die, then three are not sharing and does not solve the problem? On the other hand, if it's possible to share with dead, then problem also states "equally", so problem still isn't solved by one or more dying?
Okay so plan B and reading the "exact" criteria it's obvious to this kitten. You only get 1 slice so you will have 4 half pieces. Everyone gets 1/4 with one piece left (nowhere does it say ALL 4 pieces have to be shared).
Or you could cut off 1/3 of both apples with one slice.
Not 1/3. Cut 1/6 off both apples with one slice, leaving 1/3, 1/3 and 2 x 1/6 (which equals 1/3). Common denominator...
And of course, TRM's obvious answer, which was also the first thing to cross my mind 😱😵☠️
Your math is fuzzy. Each person gets a 1/3 share. But there are 2 apples and 3 people. So each person gets 2/3 of an apple. So Happiness was correct. Cut 1/3 off of each apple so one person gets two apple pieces and the other two get 1 large apple piece each.
The correct non-psycho answer. But I really liked the psycho approach. Channeling Alexander the Great
Yep, I was off a bit.
Cut 1/3 off of both apples with 1 slice. Each person gets 2/3 of 1 apple so 2 people get 1 pce that is 2/3 and 1 person gets 2 pcs that are 1/3 ea.
I didn't think of killing anyone.
That's what I thought too
That’s what I was thinking -- one horizontal stroke one third down
What shape are your apples? I couldn't cut a third off one apple, let alone place/attack two to do the same. There's no symmetry on any apple I've got making that possible!
being precise is racist, you know
The correct answer.
That's correct, but how to figure out in an elegant fool proof way where's the 1/3 cut?
😳fool proof! Not if I’m using me eye.......someone’s getting ripped off...lol
Dang. There goes a perfectly good plan. Back to the drawing board for all the psycho killer kittens
:(
Psycho killer kittens 🐈⬛
You are emphasizing the wrong word. It is not "*three* want to share two apples equally." It is "three *want* to share two apples equally." Stab one and the survivors each get an apple. All three "wants" are satisfied.
All 3 "wants" are satisfied only if the stabbed person wants to die!
Now, now. Be nice and share. Don't be selfish by not wanting to sacrifice for the greater good.
Not true. The only want specified is "to share two apples equally."
We can share this apple consumption event by reading a magazine or watching a movie depicting the other two eating the apple. That's how our economy works.
Well it does say ‘share’ not ‘eat’...
Under Marxism the third child would simply "disappear".
Just because you want something doesn't mean you get it. The important thing is that the apples have to be shared, so that rules out killing two of the three.
Actually, the greater good here is involved. If the majority of people get what they want, (2 of the 3 will get apple) then its OK. Individual rights are trumped by the greater good. Remember that. Otherwise, you are killing Grandma.
Put quote marks around “want” . . .
With a longer knife, why share?
LOL. I like the way you think (from a safe distance of course)
And the stabber gets a leadership job in one of the political parties. Which one matters not.
😳😳
Well obviously you do one long slash across all three children, not enough to kill them but enough to make them bleed. Now they will fear you. Then you take the apples and explain that they will be redistributed at a later date for the good of the group. Eat the apples in private. Let the children go hungry for a while. Blame their hunger on the evil apple growers who didn't grow enough apples for everyone to share equally. Once they are convinced that the evil apple growers are responsible for their plight you give them stale bread from the evil apple growers bread box. Now they will love you but also still fear you cause you served them with the knife that still had their dried blood on it. Now all three children will be equal but happy.
I think that is how Stalin did it.
Brilliant solution. Schwab wants to recruit you.
Now I’m hiding under the couch
That is how Biden *wants* to do it.
BEST ANSWER!
Who leaked a math problem from a WEF seminar? 😬
Pretty obvious, the WEF folks would have come up with TRM's solution. That's what they seem to be doing with everything else.
Just cut both in half and push one piece on the floor for the rabbit 😋
The PETA solution?
I only came up with: knife the other guy, give both apples to the girl and see if she’ll go out on a date with me.
How’d I do?
Alternate: the two guys fight over which one will give up their apple to the girl in the hope that she'll date them.
Dark alternate: Guys fight, winner takes both apples and tells girl that she has to date him unless she wants to starve.
Well, you made me laugh at least.
Perhaps if this question was on a Title IX application form! ; )
Haha wow!
I only saw the one solution...the one where you should keep your door locked... What’s the second one?
Line up the apples so that you cut 1/3 off of each in one single chop. Thus you have two 2/3 apples and two 1/3 apples.
But I thought of the other solution first too :)
you saved me from prison :)
😂
I only saw the mathematical (if so it be--one chop to render each apple 1/3 2/3)--later the 'final' solution came to me
Ha! Thank you. I think I was lazy, which blinded me to see the mathematical solution, after I saw the other one. 😘
(hides under couch until samantha leaves)
😂😂😂 I’m harmless...mostly. Plus I have 3 kitties. 🐈⬛
We have four, neener, neener. They keep adopting us.
I have over 30 (I've lost count). I do feral cat rescue ...
Hahaha!
You win!
Yes, this was pretty obvious. Not sure why only 6% of people could figure it out.
Probably most people assume that "one cut" means you're only allowed to cut one of the apples, not cut both apples with the same stroke.
Because they imply that the only thing you can do is *cut* the apples, not *move* them, too.
Without moving them, you can't tell whether they're lined up such that a one-third cut of *each* is possible with just one stroke of the knife.
This solution is like communism. It works in theory but will never work in real life.
Well they didn't say you could move the apples. They only said you get "one stroke of the knife" which implied that that was the only move available.
Well, there are two other options besides murder. 1) ask why we’re following stupid rules in which 3 able-bodied people with a total of 6 arms will get one chance to cut the apples equitably. There’s that.
But if it’s a magic djinni knife and you really only get 1 cut before he takes it away forever, 2) stack the apples on top of each other, or line them up, so that one-third of one apple is exposed at the cut where two-thirds of the other apple is cut. Two children get the two larger pieces, and one gets the two smaller pieces left over.
Source experience: I have five awesome children and we live on a modest income. But my knives are not disposable, one-time use knives so I guess we have it pretty good.
Fun fact: I’m typing this on an iPhone and it kept capitalizing “Apple” --there we go again--every time I typed the word. My phone’s designer is egocentric.
"ask why we’re following stupid rules" - Now that's true outside the box thinking.
Ah, the magical djinni knife! Another explanation. I wondered if maybe the knife was near the end of its warranty period and we expected it to break after one more slice due to engineered/planned obsolescence. Or maybe it’s a rental/leased knife, obtained through a subscription service with only one more slice left on this month’s plan, and the problem-writer is trying to avoid the overage charge they’d get if they sliced twice?
😂😂😂
Haha you’re hilarious! I type most of my comments on my iPhone and it often capitalizes brand names, changes spellings, and other annoying things!
Writing What's App comment this am on husband's iPhone---wrote 'child' and Apple changed it to "Christmas". What on earth?
Absolutely maddening, especially when you’re rapidly typing out a thought and press send without noticing the freaky changes!
I like the part where you can afford an Apple iPhone but not an extra Apple (as in the fruit).
This reliable 8, which I bought used, will last beyond the apocalypse. The cockroaches that survive the nukes can message each other on it long after we’re all gone.
Haha yes!
The question says, “three people WANT to share...”
But since one of them is a white, male and has way too much privilege it’s obvious that he deserves none of the apples. The girl and the boy of color simply call him a racist and misogynist and white supremacist. Then they each take an apple and tell him to fuck off and die.
😂
In Canada we would seize their bank accounts and tax them on their apples for having that knife
Sadly, close to the truth!
When was the last time you assassinated someone?
Careful, he sounds like a hit man so he probably is
They US'ans just keep their guns as grown men toys. They will NEVER rebel.
But assassination is impolite.
Tell that to Hilary
Found the internet tough guy!
"Equally" here means - approximate, best effort? - Tricky with asymmetrical and not exactly equal apples - but line 'em up and slice both at the 2/3rds / 1/3rd mark - right? (I did NOT think of the second solution until prompted.) - And - also - the slicer chooses his or her portion last.
Hubs got it right away...I, on the other hand, am a dark soul. He needs to sleep with his door locked. Lol. But I sleep right next to him, so there is that.
I only saw the dark and funny solution too -- until à commenter kindly revealed the mathematical solution to me above.😂
I'm rubbish at these sort of "problems" because it's always a trick of some kind.
One of three people dies by stabbing
lol! see I never would've thought of that --- I was worrying how they knew the apples were exactly the same size without a scale.....
Stack one apple on top of the other, slice straight down the middle. Collect tax from each child. Use tax as payment for the apples. Send all pieces of apples to Ukraine. Collect kickbacks for yourself and don't forget the big guy.
This seemed more like a mom problem than math challenge. I'd stack the apples and slice one third off the side of two and then the kiddies could fight over the 2/3 in piece or whole.
Classic. Yes I believe that I got the answers.
1. Cutting 2 apples with 1 slice depends upon my accuracy slicing off 1/3 of each apple when placed in a row (horizontal or vertical) and making just one slice. Give or take a little but the apples can be shared evenly without any more effort.
2. Stand between each of the other candidates. Flip a coin. HEADS, the person on the right gets knifed. TAILS, the person on the left gets knifed.
Ooh. This is dark