Mental Nuts-- Can You Crack 'em?

[glatt]

It doesn't say the acres have to be square. So I assumed the fence is a circle, and was going to do the math with Area=pi*r(squared) and circumference=2*pi*r

But I decided to google it and found that HLJ is correct and they are talking about square plots.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

i wanna say 60 without doing any math or thinking about it at all.

Hand back your genius card, sir!

Originally Posted by glatt

It doesn't say the acres have to be square. So I assumed the fence is a circle, and was going to do the math with Area=pi*r(squared) and circumference=2*pi*r

The starting phrase "if one mile of fencing encloses 40 acres ... " fairly strongly implies square fields (although not necessarily).

Clear communication is not the strong point of our nut-setter.