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Hannibal lecter

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Registered: 2016-02-11

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weighing jelly babies puzzles

Hi, this puzzle:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/weighing-jelly-babies-solution.html

is very complex puzzle I couldn't solve it or understand it

first I want to know did we put all the cartoons on the scale or only the 510 grams?
I mean maybe there is a lot of jelly babies around 1000g or more..

so are we measuring only the 51 ones that we take out or all of the boxes?

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Hannibal lecter

Member

From: Iraq

Registered: 2016-02-11

Posts: 407

Re: weighing jelly babies puzzles

The sentence in the puzzle says:

“Remove a different number of jelly babies from each box, weigh the boxes.”

That wording is misleading.

It really means:

“Remove jelly babies from the boxes and weigh what you removed.”

Not weigh the boxes themselves. right?

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Wisdom is a tree which grows in the heart and fruits on the tongue