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Maury Maille Puzzler Tower Car Talk Plaza Hahvahd Squayah Our Fair City This Week's Puzzler: A Balancing Act RAY: A fellow by the name of Tom Fite sent us this puzzler. It's from the wonderful world of physics. Tom writes, "My friend Dave has a seesaw. The board of the seesaw is a foot wide and eight-feet long. It weighs 36 pounds. "What's odd is that the fulcrum is two feet from one end. Of course, there's six feet on the other end. On the short side, he's placed a solid concrete cube, which is one foot on each side, right at the end of the board. The cube weighs 48 pounds. He wants to balance the seesaw." So, here's the question: What weight, also a solid cube one foot on a side, does he have to put all the way at the other end, for the seesaw to balance? I'll give you a hint. It won't be concrete. Think you know what to do? Drop us a note via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html If you're right and we select your answer, we'll ship you a $26 Shameless Commerce Gift Certificate. Want to listen to Raymond obfuscate the puzzler in person? Listen anytime, at http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ ************ Remember last week's puzzler? Confounding Compounding RAY: This puzzler was submitted by Peter... and, I guess he didn't want to give his last name. He writes, "Usually when the subject of a sentence is compound, and the components are connected by "and," the verb takes the plural form. For example, we say, "Bob and his wife ARE planning to drive to Florida"... not, "Bob and his wife IS planning to drive to Florida." Likewise, we say, "The vase and the book ARE on the table," not, "The vase and the book IS on the table." But, can you think of a situation where the components of a compound subject are connected by "and," yet the form of the verb must be singular, and not plural? TOM: I can do one right now! "The law firm of Dewey Cheetham and Howe IS located..." RAY: That's not a compound subject. TOM: But, it's a good fake. Ready for the answer? Here you go! http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ So, did you figure it out? Yours in weekly puzzler torment, Maury Maille Puzzler Dissemination Specialist Car Talk Plaza *********************************** Got more time to kill? This past weekend's new, lousy Car Talk show is now on the web site, at http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/ ******************** Help Ray lose the night sweats he's been getting, trying to come up with a decent puzzler each week. E-mail him your suggestion any time, via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html ******************** Puzzled out? You can unsubscribe to the Car Talk Puzzler Psychic Friends Network anytime at http://www.cartalk.com/ct/maillist.jsp?puzzler_list=subscribe#psychic We'll forgive you.
