Two fifty foot ropes are suspended from a forty foot ceiling, about twenty feet apart.

Armed with only a knife, how much of the rope can you steal?

Is there supposed to be more to this problem? What if you held on to one rope climbed the other and cut it off at the top. Swung down. Then climbed some of the other and cut it too?

Posted by chris on 2003-03-08 05:54:18