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Illiogical ?   Edited by TNG
01/17/2018 1:28 pm
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I can't wait to hear how #1 isn't filled first.
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I can't wait to hear how #1 isn't filled first. I will reveal exactly how I arrived at MY answer. |
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Illiogical ? I don't think so.  |
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None will evrrrbe fulll. Dry drank too muchh.
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None will evrrrbe fulll. Dry drank too muchh.
Despite the spelling, I am going to have to declare this the WINNER! PM your address to me.
It is close enough to MY ANSWER. I explain below. To those that are interested, it would probably help to be looking at the image when reading this.
First, I'd like to thank all those who posted answers. I saw this challenge elsewhere and the answers were all over the board. I came up with an answer in my head and decided it might be fun to challenge members here on CCF.
Second, I said to examine the graphic very carefully. Those that did, noticed that some of the glasses had exit pipes, but some of the pipes were blocked. Of course, with a blocked pipe no beer could exit that pipe and put any amount of beer into the glass into which it lead.
For example, glass 2 has a pipe seemingly leading to glass 5, but that pipe is blocked, so glass 5 could never get any beer. Similarly, glass 3 has a pipe seemingly leading to glass 7, but it is also blocked, so glass 7 could never get any beer. The other pipe leading out of glass 3 is also blocked but at the other end of the pipe leading to glass 6, so glass 6 could never get any beer.
So far, no beer could get into glasses 5, 6 or 7. That leaves glasses 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Glass 1 has two exit pipes, one leading to glass 3 and one leading to glass 2.
Since the pipe leading to glass 3 is lower than the pipe leading to glass 2 any beer flowing into glass 1 would start filling up glass 1 until it reached the lower pipe.
As any beer flows out of glass 1 into glass 3, glass 3 would begin to fill up. As previously stated, no beer can flow into glass 7 because the pipe is blocked. So beer would continue to fill glass 3. If there were enough beer, the beer would then start flowing into the higher exit pipe. However, since it is also blocked, no beer flows into glass 6 and when the pipe got full, glass 3 would continue to fill.
What happens next? Again assuming there were enough beer, glass 3 would fill up and begin to over flow. It would keep overflowing until the beer ran out. There are no tops on these glasses to prevent overflow. You did examine the image very closely, didn't you?
Those that said glass 3 would have a correct answer if only you had paid close enough attention to the image.
Now let's assume that the beer flow was not unlimited. After all, this only shows a single bottle of beer. One bottle of beer would fill part of glass 1 and start filling glass 3. However, one bottle of beer would run out and in this case, no glasses would ever get full.
Those that gave this answer would be correct if only you had paid close enough attention to the image.
Let's talk about glass 2 and glass 4 for a minute. Assuming any beer could ever exit the pipe from glass 1 into glass 2, glass 2 would start filling up until it reached the unblocked exit pipe into glass 4. Then glass 4 would start filling up, and assuming there were enough beer it would start overflowing. Glass 2 would never get filled up (again, because there are no tops on these glasses).
Those of you that answered glass 4 somehow decided beer could flow into glass 2 before glass 3 filled up.
What is MY answer, you ask?
I said to examine the image very closely before giving your answer. Does the bottle of beer have a bottle cap? It is not very clear from the image. If it has a bottle cap, then no beer would flow into any glasses.
What if it does not have a bottle cap? If it has no bottle cap, then where is the beer? The sentence directly above the image says " Drinking a bottle of Dos Equis may help you win." If you paid attention to that, then you would get my answer and my reasoning.
MY reasoning and my answer:
The bottle of beer has no beer in it or there would be beer flowing out of it, and there is none. Therefore, no glass would ever get filled up.
I would have accepted no glasses because either no beer or because it has a bottle cap.
That's how I arrived at my answer. Someone else got close, but they did not actually give that answer.
Congratulations SpaceMaNy0.
Edited by nss-52
01/17/2018 3:26 pm
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I can't wait to hear how #1 isn't filled first. Well, if there were beer, and enough beer, the beer would flow out of the lower exit pipe into glass 3 eventually filling it up and overflowing it. Ignoring that, if beer could flow out of the upper pipe it would then eventually fill glass 4 to over flowing. Ignoring that, then glass 1 would fill up to overflowing. |
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This question does not take into consideration the rate of pour from the bottle A fast enough pour would fill glass one before it could drain off into the other glasses
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#3 will be the first to fill to overflowing. The blockages in the outflow will cause this. Water will still be flowing from 2 into 4 on the left leg until it reaches each glasses equilibrium
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This question does not take into consideration the rate of pour You are right, it does not, because MY answer involves no pouring. But for the sake of argument, one bottle of beer would run out of beer before it could fill glass 1 because some of it would flow out of both exit pipes. Of course, this assumes one bottle exactly fills one glass. Casting aside that assumption, if there were unlimited beer in the bottle, and the beer could be emptied into glass 1 faster than beer can normally be poured from a longneck bottle, and that was faster than the drain rate of the two exit pipes, I would speculate you might be able to fill glass 1. Edited by nss-52
01/17/2018 4:21 pm
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#3 will be the first to fill to overflowing. The blockages in the outflow will cause this. Water will still be flowing from 2 into 4 on the left leg until it reaches each glasses equilibrium Wrong, there is no water in this image. This assumes an unlimited amount of beer coming out of a 12 ounce bottle of beer. This also assumes the pour rate into glass 1 is faster than the drain (flow) rate of the pipe into glass 3. Otherwise, no beer would ever flow from glass 1 into glass 2 (then into glass 4). I did not mention pour rate in the original post because MY answer did not involve pouring. If I ever challenge anyone with this again, I may mention pour rate and drain rate to throw them off. Edited by nss-52
01/17/2018 5:00 pm
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So the answer is no glass would ever fill? Okay, great contest. Congrats to the winner.
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