Sunday 5 August 2018

Yay! More fun.

There are two duck hunters Bob and Ted and they compete between themselves and the other members of the Selsey Duck Hunting Association for the prize of Best Duck Hunter. The prize awards skill rather with a gun rather than total kill count so it is awarded on the kill rate, that is the number of ducks killed divided by the number of shots fired: ducks/shots. So if hunter A, kills 50 ducks for 100 shots and hunter B, kills 70 ducks for 200 shots, hunter A wins because 50/100 is greater than 70/200, simple yeah?

Well look at Bob and Ted's ducks/shots stats over the last four years

Year  Bob ducks/shots  Ted ducks/shots
1 70/10069/100
2 126/35085/250
3 75/10070/100
4 100/30065/200

It might surprise you to learn that Ted has consistently been awarded the prize of Best Duck Hunter. How is it possible for Ted to have won all the awards for best duck hunter over the period covered by these statistics?

You can award yourself points through the following guidelines:-

Spotted the answer instantly: congratulations you're a genius -- 10 points.

Scratched my head for, no more than a minute and a half, then the light dawned: still pretty smart, perhaps you're just a bit slow today -- 5 points.

Did the sums in my head, worked it out after an hour or so: we're still good, it's just that you'll never be a rocket scientist -- 3 points.

It's been a day and half and my head hurts but I got it in the end: don't worry about it too much, you can tie your own laces can't you? -- 2 points.

I used all the battery power on my calculator and/or created a spreadsheet, mulled the puzzle over every night for week until it got so bad the misses threatened to take off with the kids then finally after days of woe and agony I realised the answer was staring me in the face all the time: there there, perhaps it's time for your nap now -- 1 point.

What's a duck? Oh dear, you know when people all seem to be talking really slowly to you... -- 0 points.

Looked the answer up on the internet: get lost you're beneath contempt -- -infinity points which by the way, means you can never score.

This is easy the answer is, ducks are cute, and futher more I can't prove it with... [edited] ...so there: oh hi, while indeed it's true many people find ducks to be cute, I find this answer to be somewhat wanting. Though the good news is that you do win a prize, it's a special prize, nice and shiny just for you and everyone else who's -- special.

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