Sunday, May 3, 2009

Fish weight

A fish caught from a shore of Maine weigh 10 pounds and half of its weight.
What is its weight?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

15

Anonymous said...

15

Maria said...

15 pounds is what you have in Massachusetts, Main can do better. Plus half of 15 is 7.5 pounds, and 10 + 7.5 would give 17.5 pounds, leading to a contradiction...

Lauren said...

20 Pounds

Maria said...

20 pounds is the correct answer.
with half of fish weight being 10, we get 10 + 10 = 20

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