4. The Lily Pad Problem
Waterlily is a beautiful flower. However, we are more interested in lily pads for now. The problem goes “There is a patch of lily pads on a lake. “Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?” If you are reaching for your calculator and notebook, then you are doing it kind of wrong. You will reach the right answer this way, but the problem is certainly not as difficult as it looks. The answer is 47 days, since the patch grows double each day, the answer has to be 47 days.
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And now, let’s see the top three easiest math problems that look hard, shall we?
