Finals
Posted by: clean-hewmor <clean-hewmor@...>
These four friends, students at U.T., were so confident that the weekend
before finals, they decided to go up to Dallas and party with some
friends up there. They had a great time. However, after all the partying,
they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Austin until early
Monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, they decided to find their professor
after the final and explain to him why they missed it.
They explained that they had gone to Dallas for the weekend with the plan
to come back and study but, unfortunately, they had a flat tire on the
way back, didn't have a spare, and couldn't get help for a long time. As
a result, they missed the final.
The Professor thought it over and then agreed they could make up the
final the following day. The guys were elated and relieved.
They studied that night and went in the next day at the time the
professor had told them. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each
of them a test booklet, and told them to begin.
They looked at the first problem, worth 5 points. It was something simple
about free radical formation. "Cool," they thought at the same time, each
one in his separate room. "This is going to be easy."
Each finished the problem and then turned the page. On the second page
was written: (For 95 points):
Which tire?