A puzzle by Henry Dudeney:
A lady is accustomed to buy from her greengrocer large bundles of asparagus,
each twelve inches in circumference. The other day the man had no large bundles
in stock, but handed her instead two small ones, each six inches in
circumference.
"That is the same thing," she said, "and, of course, the price
will be the same." But the man insisted that the two bundles together contained
a bit more than the large one, and charged a little bit extra. Which was correct -- the
lady or the greengrocer? From the Futility Closet:
Highlight/select the following (blank) paragraph for the answer:
Both were wrong, and the lady was badly cheated. She only got half the
quantity that would be contained in the large bundle, and therefore should have
been charged half the original price. A circle with the circumference half that
of another must have its area a quarter that of the other.
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