Last Question
You are supposed to take 1 gallon of lemonade to the soccer game. You made fresh-squeezed lemonade in a 2 gallon jug which is perfectly cylindrical, but it looks like more than half full to you, and your soccer girl is certain there is less than half of the jug filled with lemonade. If you don’t use anything to measure with, how can you tell who is correct?
Answer:
Tip the jug on its side, until the lemonade gets to the lip of the jug, just before any spills out. If you can see any part of the bottom of the jug when you look inside the jug, there is less than 1 gallon in it. If the bottom cannot be seen through the lemonade, there is at least a gallon of lemonade in it.
Today’s Problem:
What comes next in this sequence: e, g, k, m, q, _ ?