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laffytaffycandy
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I need help with this riddle
« on: Sep 8th, 2004, 2:51pm » |
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Hello,
My name is Candiace, and I really need help with this puzzle. My math teacher is stupid and makes us solve riddles each week for a grade. I find it ridiculous. If anyone can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.
Here goes for my first riddle of the semester:
What weighs two pounds when it covers four miles?
Thankyou,
Candiace
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Grimbal
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Re: I need help with this riddle
« Reply #1 on: Sep 8th, 2004, 4:18pm » |
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Well, that is 907 grams for 6427 m or 0.14 g per meter.
Could be hair.
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Re: I need help with this riddle
« Reply #2 on: Sep 9th, 2004, 4:17am » |
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Sounds more like something that belongs in "What am I"
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Re: I need help with this riddle
« Reply #3 on: Sep 9th, 2004, 5:50am » |
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Well, I think a league, the distance you can walk in an hour, is about 3 or 4 miles. Now if the weight was a pound and a half, I'd say the answer was a basketball league. Close enough?
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« Reply #4 on: Sep 9th, 2004, 12:30pm » |
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A league usually seems to be equated to 3 miles...
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« Reply #6 on: Sep 10th, 2004, 2:20pm » |
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That's why I asked "Close enough?" The league was stretching it, and a basketball is really nowhere close to 2 pounds (20-22 ounces). But it seemed like the clever sort of an answer the riddle might be looking for, and nobody's come up with anything better.
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Re: I need help with this riddle
« Reply #7 on: Sep 11th, 2004, 6:10am » |
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According to this site, the league is: Quote:| a traditional unit of distance. Derived from an ancient Celtic unit and adopted by the Romans as the leuga, the league became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe. It was intended to represent, roughly, the distance a person could walk in an hour. The Celtic unit seems to have been rather short (about 1.5 Roman miles, which is roughly 1.4 statute miles or 2275 meters), but the unit grew longer over time. In many cases it was equal to 3 miles, using whatever version of the mile was current. At sea, the league was most often equal to 3 nautical miles, which is 1/20 degree [2], 3.45 statute miles, or exactly 5556 meters. In the U.S. and Britain, standard practice is to define the league to be 3 statute miles (about 4828.03 meters) on land or 3 nautical miles at sea. However, many occurrences of the "league" in English-language works are actually references to the Spanish league (the legua), the Portuguese league (legoa) or the French league (lieue). |
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Re: I need help with this riddle
« Reply #8 on: Sep 25th, 2004, 9:15am » |
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Taking tips from the answers above I started checking ball weights for various sports.
The best answer seams to be a 'bowls league'
The bowls used for 'crown green bowls' have weights ranging between 2 - 3.5 pounds
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