I have a cupboard in my kitchen where I put my full, pre-fridge pepsi cans. The cupboard is 250 mm wide and 230mm high (internal measurements). I pepsi can is 67mm in diameter (as close as I can measure by hand) or 210 mm in circumference (using a bit of string) [which gives 68mm so lets settle on 67mm as the measurements]. How many pepsi cans can I fit into my cupboard assuming that I lie them down (ie round top facing forwards) and I only have room for a depth of 1 can?
This isn’t the same puzzle as putting in coke cans because I always ask for pepsi – most places say “yes we have pepsi” at which point I say “no, not coke – pepsi”. They reply “oh, it is coke” and I say “water please”. I’m working on the basis that if I do this enough they will start to realize that there is a market for pepsi.
I use to do the same thing at MacDonalds – ask for a caramel thickshake (secondary puzzle – what are their 3 standard flavours and do they have caramel in the restaurant ?). One day they actually said – “yes sir” – they were running a special and caramel thickshakes were one of the specials [consumer power at works]
