The Banana Puzzle

[All-ages Maths]

Heard of the Banana Puzzle?

How did you do? Did you manage to guess the correct cost? Yeah, the way pulleys distribute force is quite astounding, I must admit. Heh-heh-heh, if you've watched and studied one of our previous blog posts on pulleys (and how Archimedes of Syracuse pulled an entire boat alone using the pulleys to distribute the force needed) This is the same principle.