Mental Nuts-- Can You Crack 'em?

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

#39 depends on whether James and William share their sandwiches with each other as well,
i.e. form a pool of eight sangers shared among three eaters. I interpret this nut as NOT being like this.

I take it that stranger eats 2.5 of James' sangers, and 1.5 of William's sangers.

Assuming equal value of sandwiches, stranger should pay James 5 cents and William 3 cents.

The stranger shared equally (50 %) and so paid 4 cents to each.

It's the law of supply and demand.
It just happened that William's were just worth more per sandwich
Or, maybe William's sandwich had squirrel meat, which is harder to come by