The Chemistry Final...

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Introductory Chemistry at Buke University has been taught for about a

zillion years by Professor Bonk (really), and his course is

semi-affectionately known as "Bonkistry." He has been around forever, so I

wouldn't put it past him to come up with something like this.

Anyway, one year there were these two guys who were taking Chemistry and who

did pretty well on all of the quizzes and the midterms and labs, etc., such

that going into the final they had a solid A. These two friends were so

confident going into the final that the weekend before finals week (even

though the Chem final was on Monday), they decided to go up to UWirginia and

party with some friends up there.

 

So they did this and had a great time. However, with their hangovers and

everything, they overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Buke

until early Monday morning. Rather than taking the final then, what they did

was to find Professor Bonk after the final and explain to him why they

missed the final. They told him that they went up to UWa for the weekend,

and had planned to come back in time to study, but that they had a flat tyre

on the way back and didn't have a spare and couldn't get help for a long

time and so were late getting back to campus.

 

Bonk thought this over and then agreed that they could make up the final on

the following day. The two guys were elated and relieved. So, they studied

that night and went in the next day at the time that Bonk had told them.

 

He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test booklet and

told them to begin.

 

They looked at the first problem, which was something simple about molarity

and solutions and was worth 5 points. "Cool" they thought, "this is going to

be easy." They did that problem and then turned the page.

 

They were unprepared, however, for what they saw on the next page. It said:

 

(95 points) Which tyre?