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there is a ten pound wood bucket, you must fill it halfway up with something to make it weigh half as much (five pounds), what do you fill it up with?

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aka, fill it with holes.

the problem is, in all of these cases, it ceases to be a bucket.

you can have a holey bucket with the bullets...

What item do you sleep on, eat on and sit on?

The floor?

there is a ten pound wood bucket, you must fill it halfway up with something to make it weigh half as much (five pounds), what do you fill it up with?

Move it to a planet that has half the mass of earth.  (i.e. fill it with ROCKETS!)

Hydrogen.

Yeah kiddies. The bucket is upside down.

You win.

Quote from: Ninja Duck on August 08, 2010, 09:41:17 PM

What can you microwave, put in the oven, toast, boil, or grill, and it all tastes the same?

bread

Not true. Microwaved bread is weird....

Cheese? Though sometimes it smells different......

Quote from: Rawrlolsauce! on August 09, 2010, 12:11:13 PM

Hydrogen.

Yeah kiddies. The bucket is upside down.

The physics of that are interesting.  It would take a lot of Hydrogen (though Helium would be the better option, unless we're filling it with fire) to reduce the weight by half.

First of all, I'm pretty sure Hydrogen is lighter than helium, and second of all, the ability of a ten pound bucket to be reduced to five pounds depends much on how much space is inside.

whoever said holes got it right

>:c. My answer was more clever.

Okay, new riddle: There is a ten pound wooden bucket like object. You must fill it halfway up with something to make it weigh half as much (five pounds), what do you fill it up with?

fill it halfway up with water and throw it in a lake

Quote from: BubbleBoy on August 09, 2010, 03:10:24 PM

Quote from: SomeKittens on August 09, 2010, 02:33:16 PM

Quote from: Rawrlolsauce! on August 09, 2010, 12:11:13 PM

Hydrogen.

Yeah kiddies. The bucket is upside down.

The physics of that are interesting.  It would take a lot of Hydrogen (though Helium would be the better option, unless we're filling it with fire) to reduce the weight by half.

First of all, I'm pretty sure Hydrogen is lighter than helium, and second of all, the ability of a ten pound bucket to be reduced to five pounds depends much on how much space is inside.

Hydrogen is flammable, and that would send our whole experiment out the window.  See: Hindenburg

Actually it was more the paint than the hydrogen.

what do you put in a bucket to make it lighter?

what do you put in a bucket to make it lighter?

since no one answered

THE ANSWER:

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a flashlight

haha get it