[ExI] Intelligence test

[William Flynn Wallace]

Ben, I must have been sleeping when I wrote that. It should be:

A plant which grows in size, doubling each day, has reached the size of
half of the pool.  It will cover the pool in 30 days.  How many days did it
take to cover half of it?  Answer = 29  (quick wrong answer - 15 days) -
sorry  - bill w  (my daily admonition to students "Proofread, proofread,
proofread" is now haunting me.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:21 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 25/11/2020 19:28, bill w wrote:
>
>
> "A pool contains a plant that doubles in size each day.  How many days
> does it take for the plant to fill the pool?"  (If you take more than three
> seconds on this one you flunk)
>
> 29 days
>
>
> You're going to have to explain that one, it makes no sense to me.
>
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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