which weighs more: 2 pounds of bricks or 2 pounds of feathers? Explain

Question

solve please right now

Answer 1

Neither! It's a tie. both have same weight, 2 lbs.

Answer 2

Student,

 

First, allow me to ask you a question: 

 

Which is more money?  2 dollars in quarters, or 2 dollars in dimes? 

 

Now try to answer your question using the same logic you employed in trying to answer my question.  I think you will be compelled to agree with Kenneth's answer.

Answer 3

Actually, it used to be a riddle about the different systems used to weigh each item: one used the avoirdupois system while the other didn't, so a pound of feathers actually weighed slightly more than the pound of bricks because its "pound" legally had a few more grains than the "pound" of bricks.

Answer 4

The pun in this joke uses two meanings of the word "weigh". Firstly, weight defined as an object's relative mass (usually to earth's gravity), and secondly, the emotional value of something (eg. someone with a heavy heart is sad). Though in reality the two weigh the same, the morality of obtaining feathers from several birds (it's implied that this would probably be done inhumanely) would cause the feathers to have a greater emotional "weight".