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garancafan

eisenberg1 wrote: »

;)no, genuine question, the pallets can be loaded or empty, so it's just the physical floor space they occupy. If you guys want I can give a clue or two later today. It's a bit obscure I know, but I am hoping it's no too Easy to google etc

I'm taking that as leave to look up. Having looked up the dimensions of both container and pallet I make it 50 if they are laid flat but, as OldGoat has pointed out, many more if laid on their edges - I make it 415.

eisenberg1

garancafan wrote: »

I'm taking that as leave to look up. Having looked up the dimensions of both container and pallet I make it 50 if they are laid flat but, as OldGoat has pointed out, many more if laid on their edges - I make it 415.

Nope. The pallets, full or empty,it doesn't matter, are laid flat in normal position on the floor of 40ft trailer.

Jellybaby1

eisenberg, you old tease, you've got them all flummoxed!

dilallio

My first post here - I'm guessing 30 after having the 'pleasure' of unloading pallets as a favour to a friend a few years ago

eisenberg1

dilallio wrote: »

My first post here - I'm guessing 30 after having the 'pleasure' of unloading pallets as a favour to a friend a few years ago

Getting there:D

Most HGV drivers will be able to tell you.;)

Jellybaby1

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Getting there:D

Most HGV drivers will be able to tell you.;)

Now where will I get one of those at this hour? Maybe a Spar or Centra for lunch? Can I guess another one..............45?

Johnboy1951

have not been in a container since 1972 maybe that was a 20' container ... don't know

I will guess, maybe

2 rows of 12

24 in total?

eisenberg1

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Now where will I get one of those at this hour? Maybe a Spar or Centra for lunch? Can I guess another one..............45?

Yes, and no.

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

have not been in a container since 1972 maybe that was a 20' container ... don't know

I will guess, maybe

2 rows of 12

24 in total?

Nope.

Jellybaby1

You're flippin' enjoying this, arncha eisenberg? Me too!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Based on area, I get 21 or 25 depending on how you lay them.

garancafan

Yes, this is about a trailer not a container. 25 is a standard layout but it appears to be possible to squeeze one or two more by departing from standard. I therefore propose 27 as the answer.

Johnboy1951

Damn! How did I get the idea it was a container?

OK, I will try again

26

garancafan

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Damn! How did I get the idea it was a container?

Probably in the same way that I did.

How often have we advised young exam candidates to "READ THE QUESTION"?

Rubecula

two rows of eight makes 16

maybe I am misjudging the size three rows of nine is 27

eisenberg1

None correct do far. But good to see the minds working, and getting close.

Note, a euro pallet is 120 X 80cms.

looksee

I started off guessing that a euro pallet was a metre square, which in area it is, but in measurements it is not. I also did not know whether a 40' trailer was 40 on the inside or the outside, and also presumed that 40' was a description rather than a measurement, as it seems unlikely that trailers designed to hold euro pallets would be made in feet. I also made a wild guess that a trailer was 12' wide, which is probably too wide.

A combination of guesses and dodgy mental arithmetic gave me my answer. Which was wrong

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

eisenberg1 wrote: »

None correct do far. But good to see the minds working, and getting close.

Note, a euro pallet is 120 X 80cms.

30 so.

eisenberg1

Time to put you out of your misery?

Or will I let it run for a bit?

looksee

I think we have probably made all the guesses we can! Put us out of our misery and try another question. There should be another question out there somewhere as well?

Jellybaby1

I'm sure I passed a trailer being loaded with pallets by several min and wimmin yesterday. They were loading them this way, and that. Upside down and downside up. Every whichway. They were all scratching their 'eads. Must've been all youse!

Rubecula

Smaller than I thought so. hmm take one and multiply by the square root of my big toe.

120

eisenberg1

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

30 so.

Correct. But now to complicate things, some "40" foots were actually forty two feet long. i.e. 12 metre and 13.5 metre, so you cou,d get 33 pallets on the floor of the longer trailer.

Thanks all.

looksee

How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing is wrong with it at all, and, in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? If you study it and think about it, you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt, if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. Who knows? Go to work and try your skill. Par is about half an hour.

Not really my go, and not really a quiz question, but can anyone answer the above? (If you know because you came across it before, maybe see if people unfamiliar with it can get it?)

garancafan

It doesn't contain the letter "e"!

eisenberg1

garancafan wrote: »

It doesn't contain the letter "e"!

Also missing "J" and "Z". So maybe it's not that.....

looksee

Yes thats it, no e. Significant because it is the commonest letter in English I think.

Rubecula

Eee by gum who'd a thought tha'

Jellybaby1

Trust you to have a couple of spare eeee's up your sleeve Rube!

garancafan

On September 16 1889 Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert gave birth, in Vienna, to a daughter who was to become the apple of her father, Emil Jellinek's eye, so much so that her name was to become, and remains, iconic. What was the girl's name?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Mercedes