COMMENTS:
Heh heh ... B_P, you sly dog!
That's a very easy algebraic problem. It's basically just:
x = 1 + x/2
Couldn't be much easier.
It is easy to misread the question and subconsciously delete a key word.
That was tricky. So it's a two pound brick then.
Or two.
B: Yup. Changing the words to math can be challenging (unless you're keithsheen), but one brick is made of two halves; therefore, if one of the constituent weights is *half a brick* the other measure must, by definition, constutue the other half.
Hence, a half brick is one pound, making the brick 2 pounds.
Oops! Hope people answer before reading comments! ;-)
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