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Obviously you can't cut an iPhone into sixteen pieces. And obviously throwing one away is a waste, while giving two to one person is unfair. So what I propose is this.
Design a machine which has a small platform, shielded from view, and will, with a 50/50 probability based on the decay of radioactive particles, flop the iPhone out of a hole in the left or the right. Make sure it has a hole on top into which an iPhone can be safely dropped.
Build fifteen of these machines. Have one at the top which dumps into two others, which dump respectively into two others each, which in turn dump into two others. At the terminals of these last eight machines have the sixteen people await a result with open hands.
Now, if someone were to drop an iPhone into the top machine and everyone made a point of looking away, observer influence would be negated and the iPhone would be divided into sixteen quantum shadows of itself, superimposed at sixteen different positions in three-dimensional space.
Of course, the iPhone would collide with someone's hand at some point and would be observed, solidifying its state. However, if the observation is made by all sixteen people at the same time, the stable state does in fact leave sixteen complete iPhones, quantum entangled, in everyone's hands.
This done, every partygoer can depart with two apple iPhones in hand. Possible risks, though minor, include reality distortion, cancer, and God's undying wrath, as well as possible legal conflict with Apple Incorporated. Additionally, if science disproves observer-dependent physics the phones will most likely cease to exist. ---- Now, assuming you actually mean apples (and not Apples), simply give one apple to each person and throw the other away, or give it to charity, or keep it for yourself as payment for services rendered in dividing the apples successfully.
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How can you divide equally 16 apples among 17 children?
Yes give them each 16/17 of an apple.
What is 76000 divided in to 16?
4750
If Chesea and her friends ate 12 of the 16 apples that she purchased what percent of the apples did they eat?
12/16 = 3/4 = 0.75 = 75%
If three apples are worth two oranges how many oranges are twenty-four apples worth?
16
What if Julie bought 16 pounds of apples at 1.69 per pound how much did Julie pay?
16 pounds of apples x 1.69 per pound = 27.04
How can you divide equally 16 apples among 17 children?
Yes give them each 16/17 of an apple.
Can you divide 16 apples among 17 kids?
yes each kid gets 0.9411764
How do you divide equally 16 apples for 17 children?
how do you divide 16 apples equally between 17 children
If there are 16 apples how do you divide amongs 17 people?
kill one person
Can you divide 16 apples equally among 17 children?
You sure can. Give each child one apple and cut the last into 16 pieces - one for each child.If you don't want to cut the apple then no, you cannot equally divide 17 apples among 16 children.
How do you divide 17 apples a mong 16 people?
Give each person one apple. Throw the extra one away.
How do you divide 16 apples equally among 17 children?
Since 16 and 17 are relatively prime, i.e. they share no divisors other than 1, the only ways to divide 16 apples equally amongst 17 children is to either cut each apple into 17 pieces and give 16 pieces to each child, or cut a 17th of an apple out of each apple, give the cut apples to 16 of the children and give the 16 pieces to the 17th child.Another way to do it is to make apple sauce. From my wife. Gee, wish I had thought of that. :-)>
How much does jane pay for 1 pound and 12 ounces of apples at 1.96 per pound?
Ok, time to break out YOUR calculator! Do this with me. 1 pound and 12 ounces is equal to what as a decimal? There are 16 ounces in a pound. 12 ounces divided by 16 ounces equals .75 So 1pound 12ounces equals 1.75pounds. 1.75 pounds of apples times $1.96 equals????? $3.43 Three dollars and forty three cents. Easy as apple pie.
What happens if you divide 80 dollars among 16 people?
If you divide it evenly, everyone gets 5 dollars.
How do you divide equally 16 apples for17 kids?
That simply cannot be divided evenly. Some things will always have a remainder. This is one of those cases. There's nothing you can do about it.
What is 16 divide by 1.000 equl?
16 divide by 1.000 equl = 16
2 quarts of sliced apples equals how many apples?
about 8 large apples-- 16 medium
