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The Burning Field
Yet another one:
Two boys are playing football outside a field of wheat which 12 foot high walls surrounding it. The boys each stand 5 feet tall. One of the boys kicks the ball over the wall, into the field. Both boys then run through a door into the field to retrieve it.
Once inside they discover 2 things. The door can only be open from the outside, there is no handle on the inside of the door, so it cannot be reopened. Also, to the north of the field, there is a fire burning steadily in a line from east to west. The fire is slowly travelling southwards, towards them.
The field is 100 ft by 100 ft. There is now no way out of the field, no way of jumping over the fire or quenching it.
Within half an hour the fire will reach them, if they do nothing, they will be burnt alive.
How can they save themselves from this fire?
Two boys are playing football outside a field of wheat which 12 foot high walls surrounding it. The boys each stand 5 feet tall. One of the boys kicks the ball over the wall, into the field. Both boys then run through a door into the field to retrieve it.
Once inside they discover 2 things. The door can only be open from the outside, there is no handle on the inside of the door, so it cannot be reopened. Also, to the north of the field, there is a fire burning steadily in a line from east to west. The fire is slowly travelling southwards, towards them.
The field is 100 ft by 100 ft. There is now no way out of the field, no way of jumping over the fire or quenching it.
Within half an hour the fire will reach them, if they do nothing, they will be burnt alive.
How can they save themselves from this fire?
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I keep thinking that the size of the field maybe has some clue to solving this? It doesn't say that the boys are at the southernmost edge of the field - only that the fire will reach them in 30 minutes. They could get more time to deal with the problem if they run south down the field - but that still doesn't resolve the situation!
hi blueboy - i think stewey may be on a winner, but if not how's about (assuming the door is closed)
1. the boys have a friend outside and he or she opens the door.
2, there is a window in the door and they simply open that to get out.
3. if they have (as it seems) at least half an hour before the flames get to them, this would give them plenty time to build steps or a 'block' from the wheat so that one of them could scale the wall and open the door. Tadaaaaaaa?
i bet these are all wrong - phizzy
1. the boys have a friend outside and he or she opens the door.
2, there is a window in the door and they simply open that to get out.
3. if they have (as it seems) at least half an hour before the flames get to them, this would give them plenty time to build steps or a 'block' from the wheat so that one of them could scale the wall and open the door. Tadaaaaaaa?
i bet these are all wrong - phizzy
The door is firmly closed, the walls surrounding the field are 12 foot high. They cannot contact anyone, they have no tools or anything to help them, there are no windows or holes in the wall. They are trapped in the field, roughly in the middle, so the fire will take half an hour to reach them. If they do nothing they will be burnt alive, so what do they do??
Wait a minute..........hold on! If the door cannot be opened from the inside, the farmer (along with his tractor) who planted the wheat must still be in there. They all climb onto the tractor; the friendly farmer boosts the boys over the wall, and then clambers over himself. The boys go home for for tea, and he goes to claim on his crop and equipment insurance!
Stewey, who said the Farmer was clever, or that he could squeeze a Tractor through an average door (which he can't bty). Just for you, the farmer has gone to have it out with the people who bult the wall, leaving the boys trapped inside. No one knows they are there, not even their parents who have gone for juggling lessons.
How can the boys save themselves?
How can the boys save themselves?
