Congratulations to Cadets Slingerland and Lloyd who correctly answered that the answer is 10 lbs. The ten pounds of fish displace 10 pounds of water. Ten in, 10 out, everything remains the same--except, of course, that you now have a bucket o' fish! (In fairness, I did mention to them that for the purpose of this puzzle fish have a specific gravity of equal to the water in which they exist, a proposition with which the marine biologists out there might want to argue; frankly, though, I'm rapidly losing interest in buckets of fish.)
Here's the latest cadet challenge. You have a bucket filled to the brim with water. You add exactly 10 pounds of live minnows. How much does your bucket now weigh? (This is not a trick question.)
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Approximately 10 lbs of a minnow-like fish in a bucket.
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| Approximately 110 lbs of a minnow-like cadet, bucket not included. |
This challenge will close at 0730 Wednesday, 23 November 2011. Good luck!
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