Saturday, September 29, 2007

A Question of Adaptation

Charlie loves orchids. How can he plant ten orchids so that he has five straight rows of four orchids each?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I stared at the question for a startlingly long time and then googled. Feel free to give your answer whenever you're ready to start. I'm sure the others are starving for the answer.

My favorite legal concept? Stare decisis, of course.

--bad dad

Anonymous said...

I stared at the question for a startlingly long time and then googled. Feel free to give your answer whenever you're ready to start. I'm sure the others are starving for the answer.

My favorite legal concept? Stare decisis, of course.

--bad dad

Anonymous said...

sorry for the double click.

J. Bowman said...

As bad dad has so cleverly implied, the answer is to plant the orchids in the shape of a five-pointed star.

J. Bowman said...

I have no idea if this diagram will come out properly, or be helpful, but:

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