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One year, at Duke, there were these two guys who were taking
Chemistry and who did pretty well on all of the quizzes and
the midterms and labs, 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 Chemistry final was on Monday), they decided
to go up to Uvirginia 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 Duke 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 UV for
the weekend, and had planned to come back in time to study,
but that they had a flat tire 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 tire?
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