100 monkeys have together 1600 bananas. Show that at least four monkeys have the same number of bananas.

(In reply to My morning breakfast by Steve Herman)

This is an interesting generalization. I never contemplated fractional or even imaginary bananas. After having mused over this concept a little more, I tried to figure out what would happen if one equally divided 3 real and 3 imaginary bananas between 2 real and 4 imaginary monkeys. To my horror I arrived at 2 different solutions, which definitely can't be right! Did I stumble upon a new paradox??? Please help!

Posted by JLo on 2006-08-28 11:21:47