Cigarette butt

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Rafael Davila 👤 Member for 22 years 3 months

This is a question for those of us who had to earn everything the hard way, nothing to waste, you got to smoke the last butt even if you burn your fingers.

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Carlos Arana 👤 Member for 17 years

Actually, you get to smoke 21 times, as Mike said, but the most tobacco you will be consuming by doing this trick is the tobacco contained in 15.75 cigarettes.

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Carlos Arana 👤 Member for 17 years

The correct answer is 15.75 cigaretes. If you weren’t saving butts, you’d smoke only 12 cigarettes.

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Rafael Davila 👤 Member for 22 years 3 months

Mike you got it right, you could not forget the last butt, this was key. Are you using tweezers or nails for the last butt?

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Mike Testro 👤 Member for 20 years 5 months

Hi Rafael



16 cigarettes will furning 16 butts



16 buts make 4 cigarettes



4 cigarettes make 4 more butts



so 21 cigarettes from 16 plus 1 butt.



Best regards



Mike T.

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Rafael Davila 👤 Member for 22 years 3 months

Is compatible with both. You can use mathematica to get the solution but not needed.

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Rafael Davila 👤 Member for 22 years 3 months

If you smoke them all till the end using hair pulling tweezers then there will be no butts. If smoking with bare hands they will have, unless very experinced with your nails.



There is no catch, is a mathematical problem, a resource usage issue.

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