Riddle for the day

[john_p]

On a bookshelf there are ten volumes of an encyclopedia. Each front and back cover is 0.25" thick and the total thickness of pages between the covers is 1.5".

What is the distance between page 1 of Volume 1 and the final page of Volume 10 ?

[paulmurr]

19"?

[Strangely Brown]

19.5"

Edited by Strangely Brown on Monday 20th July 11:47

[rolty]

19 and a half inches

[shirt]

19.5"

[E31Shrew]

19.5"?

[john_p]

You are all wrong



vvv and you

Edited by john_p on Monday 20th July 11:49

[E31Shrew]

19.5"?

[Famous Graham]

Strangely Brown said:

19.5"

+1

(as in I agree, not +1 inch )

[MaximumJed]

19.5", assuming they are all placed in order from 1-10.

[dougc]

How thick are the pages?

How many pages per volume?

Edited by dougc on Monday 20th July 11:50

[NuisanceFactor]

12.5"

[john_p]

You'll all kick yourselves..

[illmonkey]

Some tit put them back in the wrong order...

[DrTre]

Depends if the books are in order or not.

[Dan_1981]

It'll be 16.5"

Think about where page one and the last page is when you stand books up on a book shelf.

Edited by Dan_1981 on Monday 20th July 11:53

[john_p]

Nope, they are arranged 1-10, in order, horizontally left to right as you look at the shelf.

[john_p]

Dan_1981 said:

It'll be 16.5"

Think about where page one and the last page is when you stand boks up on a book shelf.

Winner

[Famous Graham]

john_p said:

You are all wrong

You sure about that?

10 x 1.5" for the contents of all 10 volumes = 15"

20 x 0.25" for all the covers = 5"

Minus the front cover of the first volume and back cover of the last volume = -0.5"

15 + 5 - 0.5 = 19.5

[Famous Graham]

bks.