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Here’s a Silly Question
By admin | May 14, 2007
You know how sometimes a silly question pops into your head and you can’t find the answer straight away?
Here is one I thought up over the weekend;”Lets say someone would stand on a scale and he or she is 100kg. What would happen if this same person would have two scales and place one foot on each of these?”
Would the scales add up to 200kg or both show 50kg?
I’ve only got one scale at home and I couldn’t be bothered going to the shops buying an extra one 
I think both scales will drop down to 50kg each. What do you think?
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May 14th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
They’d both show 100kg, and it would be incorrect to add them together as they are weighing the same single item.
May 14th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
I have no stinkin’ clue. You know that I am now going to have to either go buy another scale or borrow one because this question will drive me crazy until I have the answer right?
Here’s something for you to think about. It’s a riddle one of my kids asked me:
“Which vegetable is both green and yellow and always has something in common with a part of the human body?”
May 14th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Ha ha….this is like one of thise deep questions you come up with after a long night at the pub!
I’d say 50/50
Andy
May 14th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I was hoping for that Julie
Let us know what happens heh
May 15th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Your body is pressing down with a constant force (assuming you aren’t jumping up and down on the scale or shifting your weight continuously.
The values on the two scales will add up to the total. More than likely, they will read different values because you won’t be distributing your weight equally.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Ok, so I’m going to get me FOUR scales and see what happens when I put one foot, and one foot and one hand and one hand (ala the game Twister)on the scales.
I’m sure at least one of the scales will tote up to something I like.
Now, here’s a question back atchya.
What if you took a scale and put it in a watertight plastic bag (see through - so you can read the scale.) Then you put the scale in a swimming pool - the deep end. How much will a person weigh, or how much less will he weigh - on the scale in the bottom of the pool. What if the scale is in the shallow end?
What if you are standing on a scale that is attached to a parachute and it, you and your parakeet are now plummeting towards earth? Now what? Do you weigh more? One parakeet more? Do you weigh less before the parachute opens or more?
How much does a person weigh in a transporter beam? In a tardis? After 500 visits through the Taco Bell drive-through vs. 500 visits through the Jack in the Box drive-through?
What if every chair in the United States was manufactured with a built in scale by order of Congress. A scale that announced in a robot voice “YOU WEIGH 156 POUNDS” whenever you sat down. Or whatever godawful amount you weighed. And the only way you could stop the voice is to put a quarter in the chair.
Last question. Who gets all the quarters?
Ciao!
May 17th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
That’s easy, I get all the quarters.