Logic help: If a block weighs half a block plus two pounds, how much does a block weigh?

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If a block weighs half a block plus two pounds, how much does a block weigh?

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jay2026 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (2 minutes after post)

3 pounds!

Right?

jimreeve 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (4 minutes after post)

You are very fast, but wrong.

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t.neasha #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (5 minutes after post)

4 Lbs.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (5 minutes after post)

i love you more than sunshine on my cornflakes :)

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jimreeve changed the tags on this post: they were "Two pounds, block, I.Q., Logic, comprehension" 1 year, 4 months ago.

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Sir Cody † 60 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (7 minutes after post)

4lb. duh.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (10 minutes after post)

4 pounds .. ?

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jay2026 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (11 minutes after post)

NOOOOOOOOOO you can’t be serious!!!!!ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm 2 1/2 pounds. That’s amy final answer.

jay2026 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (12 minutes after post)

Wait it’s 4 pounds!

t.neasha #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (12 minutes after post)

Block = X

X = (X/2) + 2

X - 2 = (X/2)

2X - 4 = X

X = 4

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Sir Cody † 60 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (12 minutes after post)

quick formula for this would be: x=1/2 x+2=4

x equals one half of x added to two thus equaling four

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jay2026 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (14 minutes after post)

What? I’ll go with that I’m on T.neasha’s side!

Sir Cody † 60 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (17 minutes after post)

I am not used to writing formulas on a computer. t.neasha did a much better job in illustrating the formula.

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jimreeve 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (21 minutes after post)

Yes, of course it is 4. This is my first day on Help.com so I’m just fooling around trying to figure out how it works. You people here seem to be brighter than the people on you tube.

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Sir Cody † 60 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (24 minutes after post)

The fact that we are here instead of youtube illustrates that quite nicely I think.

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spiratec9 20 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 1 year, 4 months ago (1 hour, 2 minutes after post)

a lot

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spiratec9 20 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 1 year, 4 months ago (1 hour, 6 minutes after post)

jimreeve wrote:
Yes, of course it is 4. This is my first day on Help.com so I’m just fooling around trying to figure out how it works. You people here seem to be brighter than the people on you tube.

of coarse we are.

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spiratec9 20 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 1 year, 4 months ago (1 hour, 7 minutes after post)

are you sure the block weighs exactly 4 pounds?

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spiratec9 20 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 1 year, 4 months ago (1 hour, 11 minutes after post)

i guess its one of those imaginary blocks that are very accurately made.

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jimreeve 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (1 hour, 28 minutes after post)

To restate the question to demonstrate engineering mathematics. If a block weighs half(plus or minus 5%) a block plus 2(plus or minus 5%)pounds and the critical mass of the isotope of which the block is made is 4.20 pounds, what is the risk that the block will go critical and blow you to pieces? Or have I given you enough information?

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spiratec9 20 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 1 year, 4 months ago (1 hour, 32 minutes after post)

16%

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spiratec9 20 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 1 year, 4 months ago (1 hour, 39 minutes after post)

there are about 1000 nuclear reactors in the world.
The nuclear industry has estimated that there will be one major
nuclear accident in every 10,000 reactor years.
By simple math that means we should have one major accident every 10 years.
I think we are running very badly on borrowed time.
What are we waiting for?another Chernobyl?

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jimreeve 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (2 hours after post)

You are exactly right, spiratec9. I have spent months debating this issue, mostly on you tube and mostly against employees of the nuclear industry. I stressed two points in my debates, the one you make here and also that we do not have an adaquately proven method for storing the high level waste.
This debate has now gone into the political arena and as we know politicians are idiots.

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Florimouse edited this post 1 year, 4 months ago. Read the previous text »

If a block weighs half a block pluss two pounds, how much does a block weigh?

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Florimouse 26 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (3 hours, 40 minutes after post)

Answer: It weighs 1/2 a block plus 2 pounds!

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