Re: GOING BANANAS OVER THIS PROBLEM

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From: ahxiang
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:00

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:04:12 +0800, "Sophus Lefouque (M)"
<vng@ERASE.letterbox.com> wrote:

>i got this from the French Maths newsgroup.
>==================================================================
>A banana merchant has 3000 bananas to sell.  He has to render 
>himself at the market situated 1000 km away with his elephant, 
>which cannnot transport more than 1000 bananas on each trip.  
>The elephant eats 1 banana per km, how many bananas can the 
>merchant sell?
>PS: The answer is not zero.
>==================================================================
~ aiyah, sell the useless elephant and get a bullock cart lah

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From: friedfishsoup@hotmail.com (ahxiang)
Subject: Re: GOING BANANAS OVER THIS PROBLEM
Date: 2000/02/12
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