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A man walks up to a bridge with a warning sign saying 'MAXIMUM LOAD - 80KG'.The man is carrying 3 bars of gold, each weighing 1KG.The man weighs 78KG.He makes the journey in ONE TRIP, and all the bars of gold reach the other side of the bridge at the SAME TIME as he does.How does he cross safely?

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A man walks up to a bridge with a warning sign saying 'MAXIMUM LOAD - 80KG'.The man is carrying 3 bars of gold, each weighing 1KG.The man weighs 78KG.He makes the journey in ONE TRIP, and all the bars of gold reach the other side of the bridge at the SAME TIME as he does.How does he cross safely?

He throws them? Then walks across. :P
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All the weights are correct to the nearest kilogram. Therefore, all the weights could be -0.5kg lighter than you stated. Therefore, the man weighs 77.5kg, the bars weight 0.5kg and the sign means 79.5 kg.The man walks across with all 3 bars, which totals up to 79kg, which is 0.5kg less than the maximum load and thus gets across safely with all three bars.Probably wrong, but there's always a chance.

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Well Chris could be right, you were rather vague. One could have been born at 2359, the other at 0001 the next day.Alternatively, they could both be one half of two different sets of identical twins. So they are both identical twins, but not identical to each other.

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