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[Laird]

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Linda gave us this: "The expectation is that either the weight of the product only comes in 1 pound increments, or that the weight of the product is altered to adhere to 1 pound increments."

Thus, if I place a 2 pound weight on the left side and a single product on the right side, if the right side goes up..... its a 1 pound product.  It can't weight "0" and if it weighed 2 pounds the scales would balance.  And if weights are fractional then the preferred answer wouldn't be able to isolate, say, a 1.x pound product either. Right?

Doesn't really matter as the 5 weights was bettered by the 4 weight option.

Oh, right, I see what you mean now - clever!

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