You have a cube of ice floating in a glass of water. The question is what fraction of the ice will be above the water line? Assume that the ice is not bobbing.
Most of you have probably heard the answer to this before. But please provide a proof or solution, along with your assumptions.
(In reply to
Sea water is not water by Jonathan Chang)
You've been very redundant, JC, and I speak for many other people
around when I say I strongly disagree with your point of view, and do
not appreciate your endless ranting.
In puzzles, and in language in general, people don't feel the need to
explain every single ambiguity--it's just too inefficient, and slightly
on the absolutely impossible side. Why bother? Instead, there are
conventions that we assume unless otherwise told.
If you just
feel you are above making any assumptions, perhaps you shouldn't have
to make any. Find a solution that is a function of all those
uncertain factors you've been talking about. For example, M
could represent the molarity of salt in the water. Z could
represent the type of ice cube (Z=1 if carbon dioxide, Z=2 if hollow
ice cube, Z=3 if there are 20 ice cubes, etc.) Is that too
difficult for you?
Edited on April 22, 2005, 1:57 am
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Posted by Tristan
on 2005-04-22 01:51:03 |
re: Sea water is not water
