Iron or Feather?

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What weighs more - a pound of iron or a pound of feathers?

iron cant determine feather both same

Prajwal Kavad by Prajwal Kavad , 24, India

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4 solutions

Kevin Mo
Sep 20, 2014

Both are weighed to be 1 pound, so they are equivalent in weight.

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Hey, my father used to play pranks on me with such questions, when I was a child! :)

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Michael Mendrin
Apr 16, 2014

Well, now, but aren't we assuming that iron is not a precious metal? Maybe on another planet where iron is as rare as gold, feathers will weigh more?

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Feathers can also be rare, can't they!!

Satvik Golechha - 7 years, 1 month ago

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yeah, especially fish feathers (which doesn't exist)

Ken Falken - 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Prajwal Kavad
Apr 15, 2014

1 pound of both hence both weighs the same

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Its a tricky one

Vedant Mittal - 7 years, 1 month ago

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You say this one tricky .[so try this one] (https://brilliant.org/community-problem/gold-or-feathers/?group=ZzrAolS2CyLj&ref_id=172916)

Archiet Dev - 7 years, 1 month ago

explain

Hassan Salim - 7 years, 1 month ago

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