How many Smarties will fit in a coffee mug?

[AdamW]

A bit similar to how many nails in a kilo eh?

That must have been 18 months ago now: LET IT LIE!!!

 

[markie]

what about whats heaviest ton of feathers or ton of smarties? we all know that one, [ smarties, have you ever tried eating a feather

 

[kendor]

how many smarties in a mug: depends on whether you smash them with a hammer first

 

[empip]

how many smarties in a mug: depends on whether you smash them with a hammer first

Tin mug on the gas, max fill...

 

[kendor]

how many smarties in a mug: depends on whether you smash them with a hammer first

Tin mug on the gas, max fill...

you might have invented a comfort drink there Pip! will have to try that

 

[Nige F]

vol. of mug= Pi.RsquaredH.assuming it`s clyndrical

Yep, R = ? H= ?

Radius Height Pi- wot I ate lots of

 

[securespark]

Using a bog standard 1/2 pint straight sided mug, I got 303 of the colourful beggars in.......................

SAD GET!!

 

[Zampa]

Easy, assume it's an ellipsoid, then measure it's length, width (assume the same as it circular) and height. Calc it's volume 4/3 pi R * length * width * height.

Assume that the mug is a cylinder, calc it's volume.

THEN you need to do the clever bit, you need to understand how the smarties can tessellate into the cylinders volume, do the calculus, take max and min numbers, and the answer, as always, will be somewhere in the middle of the two numbers.

Trouble is there are quite a few assumptions here.

Theres always one isnt there..

 

[andy]

does the mug have a hole in the bottom?


id say 424 smarties.

 

[empip]

Half a pint of melted then solidified smarties will probably fill the half pint mug ..

 

[securespark]

As that well-known seasonal character often says, "Ho, Ho Ho!"