The biggest area

4 shiney stars

A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.

The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient.

The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the Earth was the best.

The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do?

Scroll down for solution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The mathematician made a small fence around himself and declared himself to be on the outside.




Difficulty
  • Moderate
Type
  • Logic
  • Mathematical
Submit your vote:

Comments

Which one do you think got paid?
- Simon (2 Mar 2010)

You got it Simon :D
- Faruk (28 Mar 2010)

i would have used no fence and just used the whole world as my area

- Ah-Mazing (5 Apr 2010)

The engineer!

- Rico (12 Apr 2010)

(without looking at the answer or other comments)

He made his fence in a tight square and stated that the area outside of this was fenced off from inside of it
- Timothy (21 Jun 2010)

I think that mathematician would say that fence is infinite beacause thats their excuse for everything
Source:School
- NOright (29 Jun 2010)

i think that mathematician would think off he is the man who could do better than that both
- ashwin (7 Oct 2011)

Post your own comment

Name:
Email or web site:
Anti-spam check
To prove you are human, what traffic light color means stop?(Hint: 3 letters, beginning with R)
Comments:
Note: comments may be edited and will not appear until approved