RE: Math game
October 13, 2023 at 3:10 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2023 at 3:11 pm by GrandizerII.)
(October 13, 2023 at 2:52 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:(October 13, 2023 at 2:46 pm)GrandizerII Wrote: I'm curious as to what makes you fairly sure it's 13. It's a long way to get there compared to 4.
But I'm also not sure where the liquid is more inclined to go once it drops underneath bucket 2.
The opening is at the bottom of #2, there's a shorter distance to (top to bottom) to #8 than to make it back and up to #3.
Fluid could run equally left and right under #2 but would dump out into #8 before it could ever back up to #3.
The distance to 8 may be shorter (and easier as it's not uphill), but I still don't see how therefore ultimately 13 is the bucket that will be filled first. Unless Bucket 3 never gets touched until Bucket 8 is completely filled? If that's the case, then I have a visualizing problem here, because I'm thinking that some liquid will seep up towards 3 while Bucket 8 is still not completely filled.
