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Can I try? I'm more of a Math Ditz than a Math Whiz so my answer may be way off the mark but here goes nothing:

The answer is 500 bananas.

Starting at Point A, each Point thereafter is a 250 mile mark (B, C, D then E is the market)

Point A - Take 1000 bananas to Point B. 250 eaten, 250 to go back, leave 500 there. Go back.
Point A - Take 1000 bananas to Point B. 250 eaten, 250 to go back, leave 500 there. Go back.
Point A - Take the last 1000 bananas to Point B. 250 eaten, 750 left.
You now have 1750 bananas at Point B

Point B - Take 1000 bananas to Point C. 250 eaten, 250 to go back, leave 500 there. Go back.
Point B - Take the remaining 750 bananas to Point C. 250 eaten, 500 left.
You now have 1000 bananas at Point C

Point C - Take 1000 bananas to Point D. 250 eaten.
You have 750 bananas at Point D

Point D - Take 750 bananas to Point E (the market). 250 eaten.
You have 500 bananas to sell at the market

No?
Sorry, I can't do those calculations, it would make my head explode Shocked

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Is this wrong? Please tell me what my mistake is.

Thanks!

Sorry, had to edit cause I missed a point! Embarrassed

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Took me a while to catch the mistake. Your mistake is that in your last step, you put that you eat 250 bananas on going from point C to point E...but those points are actually 500 miles apart. So you should have 1000-500 = 500. Good try thought. Oh, and someone posted this link a few pages back http://www.able2know.com/forums/a2k-post534969.html#534969 which links you to the solution to this problem somewhere else on this board. The upper limit on the bananas is 533 and 2/3rds.

EDIT: haha, you edited while I was typing a response to you.

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I had it correct on my paper but didn't look at it while I was typing it out.

That'll teach me to think at the top of my head.

I don't get the 533 and 2/3 answer but I'm guessing it is something that will make my head explode and my neck needs something to hold up. Very Happy

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That cannot be possible.
If the grower needs to travel 1000 to market and eats a banana every mile and the camel can only hold 1000 bananas then the grower can not take 2000 bananas for the way there and back.

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pollitunder wrote:

That cannot be possible.
If the grower needs to travel 1000 to market and eats a banana every mile and the camel can only hold 1000 bananas then the grower can not take 2000 bananas for the way there and back.

Almost anything is possible if you think about it.

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its zero...thats easy!

if it can only carry 1000 at a time, and has to eat one to go a mile(regardless of how many its carrying then it would eat them all on the way there then die coming back.

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Hello Why, welcome to the forum. Please be assured no camels were hurt during the construction of this answer:

ebrown_p wrote:

Ok Step by Step.

1. Load 1000 bananas I bring them to the 200 mile marker
Bananas at start = 2000
Bananas at 200 iles = 800
Bananas eaten = 200

2. Go back and get 1000 more bananas (eating 400 on the rt)
Bananas at start = 1000
Bananas at 200 miles = 1400
Bananas eaten = 600

3. Go back and get 1000 more bananas (eathing another 400)
Bananas at start = 0
Bananas at 200 iles = 2000
Bananas eaten = 1000

4. Go an addition 333.33 miles with 1000 bananas (eating 333.33 on the way
Bananas at 200 miles = 1000
Bananas at 533.33 miles = 666.66
Bananas eaten = 1333.33

5. Go back to 200 mile mark and get 1000 bans (eating 666.66 on the rt).
Bananas at 200 miles = 0
Bananas at 533.33 miles = 1000
Bananas eaten = 2000

6. Grab the 1000 bananas and go to the market (now 467.66 miles away).
Bananas at 533.33 miles = 0
Bananas at market = 533.33
Bananas eaten 2467.66

After all this work I am going to sell the 533 bananas. I am going to eat the remaining 1/3 banana with the camel.

Have a nice day.

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this stuff, i love reading these riddles...gets your mind going.
I came up with 533.

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This riddle has been alive for 3 years now Laughing

unfortunately the bananas are in the meantime terribly rotten.

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CalamityJane wrote:

This riddle has been alive for 3 years now
unfortunately the bananas are in the meantime terribly rotten.

That was a good one Laughing

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Tryagain wrote:

What exactly is it with fame and ripe bananas?

They go side by side, Try!

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