A bag of potatoes weighs 50 lbs divided by half of its weight. How much does the bag of potatoes weigh?

Question

The sum of a mother, her baby and her dog’s weight is 170 Kg. How much does the baby weigh if the mother weighs 100 kg more than the combined weight of the baby and the dog, and the dog weighs 60 per cent less than the baby?

Answer 1

The potatoes weigh 10 lb.

Answer 2

A bag of potatoes which weighs 50 lbs is still a bag of potatoes which weighs 50 lbs. A good example of a meaningless statement with a tricky tautology. In other words, the action as in "divided" is in the past tense and thus has already been taken to divide the bag of potatoes. So in the present, 50 lbs divided (a past action) still = 50 lbs.

Answer = 50 lbs.

Answer 3

10 lbs

As half of 10 is 5 and 50/5=10