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if they're at the border couldn't they just take 2 seconds per row to walk across <img src="/~stretch/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> they're all next to each other. so take the length of the border divide it by about 3 feet apart with about 1 feet body width (total 5) per person. however many people per row giving 2 seconds for the first row 4 seconds for the next and 6 seconds for the next row adding 2 seconds from last amount of time to next row behind you'll get the answer. or something like that. I can't think right had a bunch of beer for lunch <img src="/~stretch/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Who says the chinese all decided to walk ? What if a few skips and others jumped ? What would the answer be then.

Kinda figured that was the answer with extra thrown in figures and facts to steer you away into meandering math.
But yah, the riddle would have been much easier if it was worded to include that not all the chinese need to be standing in line and are allowed to eat chicken feet, fuck, and have babies or something.
Riddles and tests have always been more about knowing the questions than knowing the answers.

if the entire population of china lined up in a straight line around the world, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

The correct answer is very close to 5.5mins taking into account the population growth rate and assuming this were to happen in July of 2003.
If you go to the CIA world fact book http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html
you can see that the population was 1,286,975,468. The growth rate was 0.6% annually and China shares 3645km of border with Russia.
1km = 3280.8399ft
3645km = 11958661.4355ft
11958661.4355 / 3 = 3986220.4785 people in 1 line along the border
1286975468 / 3986220.4785 = 322.8560 rows
3 feet spacing between rows as well
322.8560*3 = 968.5680 feet between the last row and the border
1mile = 5280ft, 2mph = 10560ft/hr
968.5680 / 10560 = .09172 hours = 5.5032 mins
so 5.5mins for the last row to cross into Russia.
Now to check the impact of population growth (which Ill do linearly since we are dealing with a small increment of time).
with a population of 1286975468 and a growth rate of 0.6% annually 772185280.8 ppl will be born in 1 year.
365*24*60 = 525600mins/yr
772185280.8/525600 = 1469.15ppl per minute
1469.15*5.5032 = 8080.325 ppl will be born by the time the chinks finish marching into Russia. This isnt nearly enough to complete a full row and when you take into account that half of these born wont even be chinese since they will have been born in Russia. Round my answer to 5.5mins and and impact population growth has will be too insignificant to impact the answer.
Assuming all children that are born are sent to the end of the rows to enter Russia as Chinese, China would need a growth rate of about 296%

I never calced it out, just heard it. I will now find the person who told me that, and pummel them to death with a shovel.
It was probably more Swedish propoganda.

Armed with forks? Did you mean chopsticks? Damn.. now I'm hungry for some. PFC. Move back to So Cal damn you so we can have more lunches.. heh.
-Bal.

NT

"if the entire population of china lined up in a straight line around the world, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction "
I'd hate to be the first person in line that has to wait for all the others to get in line before I could leave... WTF!