Farmer Brown came to town with some watermelons. He sold half of them plus half a melon, and found that he had one whole melon left. How many melons did he take to town?
2008-03-28T07:27:34Z
So far nobody got it right. I need to get some sleep, so I'm gonna sign off and check again tomorrow. Cheers for now!
2008-03-28T08:44:53Z
To Zim: Sorry buddy, but you are wrong. Nobody got it thus far! And to all others: No need in googling the answer, because it's not there!
2008-03-28T17:36:09Z
To Slipperman: What I meant was that you would find the wrong answer on Google.
A little late but zxcv is right…….. the wording is a bit tricky…..the problem comes here “He sold half of them PLUS half a melon, and found that he had one whole melon left…..” The leading question doesn’t say he sold half of the melons……..the understanding is that plus means “in addition to”…half of 3 is 1,5…….in addition to that he went on to sell half a melon……this means he sold two melons……and the logically, the only number from which you could deduct two and remain with 1 is three….
He has half the watermelons left and have one and a half melons left. so I agree with Lise K, he must have had 2 whole melons to have one whole melon left and the other half of the melon he sold. There is a difference between a melon and a watermelon in SA. = waatlemoen en 'n spanspek