Can you solve the airplane riddle? - Judd A. Schorr
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Professor Fukanō, the famous scientist, has embarked on a new challenge – piloting around the world in a plane of his own design. There’s just one problem: there's not enough fuel to complete the journey. Luckily, there are two other planes to help. Can you help the professor fly for the whole trip and achieve his dream, without anyone running out of fuel and crashing? Judd A. Schorr shows how.
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This riddle forces you to map out an intricate, common sense, mathematical plan. How might this practice be applied to your everyday life?
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William Lwin
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Leonardo Chimal
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Leonardo Chimal
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Harry Connerty
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This practice might be applied to my everyday life by using allowances.
Ethan Liu
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in response to 지욱 장 Show comment
I agree with you too.
Madhav Nair
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It will help me doing calculations.
Vikas Jaiswal
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Well i think that ********* needed only 1 assistant with him I needed only two pilots to cover whole journey.
Seo Ji Woo
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I agree with you too!
It will also help people to be more creative :)
Sunme Kim
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Well, I think that it helps me to understand the real world, and I kind of think of this like a realistic fiction story, and i really love the way they figured and explained this riddle
Brady Ornat
Brady Ornat
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You will be a genius.