Would anybody please explain the meaning of this? "If it takes a hen and a half, a day and a half, to lay an egg and a half, how long does it take a one legged grasshoper to kick the seeds out of the dill pickle?"
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Explanation:
There is no answer and there is no deep meaning.
It is a nonsense play on a kind of actual puzzle.
I first heard it as:
If six cats can kill six rats in six hours, hour long will it take 100 cats to kill 100 rats?
There are many variations. I recently saw this one:
If a cat an a half can catch a mouse and a half in a day and a half, how long will is take for 6 cats to catch 12 mice?
Those two have actual answers.
The one asked about in this question is more like this popular nonsense:
If you have 4 pencils and I have 7 apples, how many pancakes will fit on the roof? (The answer is: Purple, because aliens don't wear hats.)
This seems to me to be a joke based on how difficult many people find it to translate real world facts into mathematics.
In fact one of the memes starts with "Every time I see a math word problem it looks like this: If I have 10 ice cubes and you have 11 apples, how many pancakes . . . . "
