Set 4
Answer 4 |
The frog can never jump as far as the edge of the pond since the total distance it jumps will never equal or exceed 4 metres. However, after 7 or 8 jumps, the lily pad it is on must be touching the edge of the pond so the frog can just walk out. | |
Freakish Facts |
A single biscuit from Shackleton's 1907 expedition to the South Pole was sold for £4,935 at an auction in 2000. At the Antiques for Everyone show in Birmingham, held in April, 2000, a hot cross bun baked in Stepney, East London, in 1828, was sold as an antique. 84-year old Fran Humphries raised £10,000 by collecting one million 1p coins in 17 years to help in repainting the hall of Tewkesbury Abbey. While holidaying in Britain, a Californian developed such a fondness for Dover sole that he now orders them over the Internet even though he has to pay £190 a pair to have them delivered by air. Hubert East, 74, was awarded £1,000 compensation by Cherwell District Council because it failed to notice his bungalow was not on plans submitted by Kirtlington Golf Club, Oxfordshire. Mr East estimated that over 1,300 balls had landed on his property over a four-year period. |
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