The Lemon Fool

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If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs can six chickens lay in a week?

Cinelli

...Can "chickens" lay eggs?

cinelli wrote:Light relief.

If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs can six chickens lay in a week?

Cinelli

Spoiler:

Two and a third dozen?


GS

cinelli wrote:Light relief.

If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs can six chickens lay in a week?

Cinelli

A pointless and hypothetical question given a chicken cannot actually lay "an egg and a half", whatever the time period.

cinelli wrote:Light relief.

If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs can six chickens lay in a week?

Cinelli

Half chicken? Is that something you'd find at the boneless chicken ranch?

I don't know about chickens, but if a woman can lay an egg in a day, she can still only lay one in a week. The next one being at least (ballpark) four weeks.

Mike4 wrote:A pointless and hypothetical question given a chicken cannot actually lay "an egg and a half", whatever the time period.

Ah. But what about the "half" chicken? You hadn't thought of that, had you?

XFool wrote:

Mike4 wrote:A pointless and hypothetical question given a chicken cannot actually lay "an egg and a half", whatever the time period.

Ah. But what about the "half" chicken? You hadn't thought of that, had you?

I had, but the two separate issues were already being conflated in the OP.

I hold that the half chicken can't lay ANY eggs, although some might want to know which half of the chicken we are talking about.

Mike4 wrote:

XFool wrote:

Mike4 wrote:A pointless and hypothetical question given a chicken cannot actually lay "an egg and a half", whatever the time period.

Ah. But what about the "half" chicken? You hadn't thought of that, had you?

I had, but the two separate issues were already being conflated in the OP.

I guess that's in the nature of the puzzle.

Mike4 wrote:I hold that the half chicken can't lay ANY eggs, although some might want to know which half of the chicken we are talking about.

But isn't this the same as "the average family has 2.5 children"? It's a statistical rather than a physical fact. Anyway, you can always just multiply by two (appropriately!).

The question states, "a chicken and a half", not "one and a half chickens". C+½ is not the same as 1½C (unless C=1).

I am not sure how "a half" can lay anything, nor how anything can lay "a half". The word, "half" is not normally used on its own although there are exceptions, for example, when referring to a half-pint of ale.

I am not sure how "a day and a half" should (if taken literally) be interpreted either. "Half-past" (in the UK) means "half an hour past" so does "a day and a half" mean 24½ hours?

If we assume that halves cannot lay eggs, the original question can be reduced to,

"If a chicken can lay an egg in a day, how many eggs can six chickens lay in a week?"

If we also assume that a chicken can lay an egg every day (or every 24½ hours, assuming that we are considering what a chicken can lay in a week, not what it would do on average), one chicken can lay seven eggs in a week. Six chickens can, therefore, lay 42 eggs in a week.

XFool wrote:...Can "chickens" lay eggs?

That is irrelevant as the question was, "If...". The question would still be valid if it was, "If a cow and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs can six cows lay in a week?".


Julian F. G. W.

jfgw wrote:That is irrelevant as the question was, "If...". The question would still be valid if it was, "If a cow and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs can six cows lay in a week?".


Julian F. G. W.

It depends on whether "cow" is a free variable or a cow with intrinsic cowness.

if zero equals one then literally anything and everything.

There is to containing the smallest logical error. A single contradiction implies everything is true and false at the same time. This is why we have things like Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory and not the unspeakable horrors that preceded it.

...Anyway. I agree, it's 28 eggs.

GoSeigen wrote:Two and a third dozen?

GS

Nicely put.

Cinelli

jfgw wrote:The question states, "a chicken and a half", not "one and a half chickens". C+½ is not the same as 1½C (unless C=1).

I am not sure how "a half" can lay anything, nor how anything can lay "a half". The word, "half" is not normally used on its own although there are exceptions, for example, when referring to a half-pint of ale.

So Yes, No, Yes, then...

jfgw wrote:I am not sure how "a day and a half" should (if taken literally) be interpreted either. "Half-past" (in the UK) means "half an hour past" so does "a day and a half" mean 24½ hours?

If we assume that halves cannot lay eggs, the original question can be reduced to,

"If a chicken can lay an egg in a day, how many eggs can six chickens lay in a week?"

If we also assume that a chicken can lay an egg every day (or every 24½ hours, assuming that we are considering what a chicken can lay in a week, not what it would do on average), one chicken can lay seven eggs in a week. Six chickens can, therefore, lay 42 eggs in a week.

So all completely wrong then!

QED

cinelli wrote:Light relief.

Good grief man, this is TLF!

cinelli wrote:Light relief.

I find that rather unlikely ;;) [/pedant mode = ON]

cinelli wrote: If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs can six chickens lay in a week? Cinelli

Since half of chickens are male, I do not believe the question as phrased is answerable.

...What about the LBGT chickens?