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Riddle: The Water Melon Seller
A difficult riddle that only a few people can solve.
A water melon seller goes to the market in the morning with 200pounds of melons. These melons contain 99% water and 1% pulp.
The seller has a very bad day en doesn’t sell a single melon. During the day is is very hot, so some of the water inside the melons evaporates.
At the end of the day, he goes home with his melons that consists only of 98% water.
How many pounds does the seller has to take home with him?
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how did you go from 99/1 to 49 /1 ?
no pounds he never sold any melons
Would it be 100 pounds?
Surely water wouldn’t be able to evaporate through the skin of the melon for a start, thus the melons would maintain the same weight and he would finish with 200 pounds (lbs) of melons. Secondly, if it could, and these melons lost 1% of their water content, then i would imagine that 1% needs to be replaced by air since there isn’t going to be any more pulp there now. This would make them lighter by 1% (assuming air weighs nothing which isn’t strictly true but a reasonable relative estimate). Thus, i conclude they must lose 1% of their mass and now the watermelon seller only has 198 pounds(lbs) of melons.
a watermelon can’t evaporates, if all watermelons evaporate all water melons where consists 98% of water or totally evaporate…so the 99%is not right….:)
i dont get it. a watermelon cant evaporate because of the peel. i just dont get it okay!
It seems to be that he ONLY took home the melons that were 98% water. Given that the water can’t actually evaporate through the rind, NONE of the watermelons were 98% water, all of them were 99% water. Therefore, he didn’t take any watermelons home with him, because he was only taking the 98% melons. So he took 0 lbs of melons home. I could be way off, but that’s what it sounds like to me!
100 pounds because the 1% pulp weighs 2 pounds. After some water evaporates, its only 98%. Now 2% represents the the weight of the pulp. SO 2% of the watermelon’s weight is 2 pounds, so that means that the total wight which is 100%, is 100 pounds.
It is quite simple! The Watermelon is homosexual!