Friday, February 12, 2010

Lemon-Lime or Cola?

Scenario: Two glassesa re each filled half-way with soda- one with cole, and the other with lemon-lime. A small amount of the lemon-lime is reomoved from the glass and put into the cola glass. The glass is stirred thoroughly so that the lemon-lime is completely mixed into the cola. Then the same amount of the mixture is removed from the cola glass and put back into the glasss with the lemon-lime.
Question: After the soda has been exchanged, is there more cola in the lemon-lime glass or more lemon-lime in the cola glass?
Answer: After the soda is exchanged, there would be more lemon-lime in the cola glass than there would be cola in the lemon-lime because there was already lemon-lime in the cola and then an additional lemon-lime was mixed in.

No comments:

Post a Comment