MATH FUN #1

Challenge Yourself!

You start with a single lily pad sitting on an otherwise empty pond. You are told that the surface area of the single lily pad doubles every day and that it takes 24 days for the single lily pad to cover the surface of the pond.

If instead of 1 pad you start with 8 lily pads (each identical to the single pad),

how many days will it take for the surface of the pond to get covered?

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ANSWER BELOW

If you figure out the relationship between 8 pads and one lily pad, you will get the answer! Since one lily pad doubles every day, after 3 days it will be equivalent to starting with 8 lily pads! Then since one lily pad covers the whole pond in 24 days and we are starting after three days for 8 lily pads, the answer is 24-3, which is 21 days!

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Unsolved Riddle

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MEME MADNESS