Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Breman's Biscuits -- Can you solve this impossible riddle?

Betty Breman bags biscuits for the Breman Biscuit Bakery. Benson Breman, her uncle, is the owner and chief baker of Breman's Biscuits. He was recently modified the product by enlarging it, flattening it, leaving it in the oven a minute longer, adding er to the dough, and generally improving the taste. Betty puts thirteen of these bigger biscuits into each bag. Her brother, Broderick Breman, packs eight bags of their bigger, broader biscuits into boxes, so the biscuits won't be broken in shipment. Breman's Biscuits are sold everywhere from Boston to Birmingham to Berkley to Burma to Belgium to Bangkok and back. Betty's cousin, Billy Bob Breman, bands eighteen boxes of bags of the bigger, broader, browner biscuits into a bundle. These bundles are then bound into a bunch of bundles, each bundle containing fifteen bundles. Blanch Breman, Billy Bob's sister, does the bunching of bundles of these biscuits. Burl Breman, Benson's younger brother, makes up a batch of twenty-two bunches of bigger, broader, browner, erier, better Breman Biscuits and packs them into a bin, forty batches to the bin. These bins are quite large. Bernice Breman loads the bins into a boat for shipment overseas. It takes one hundred eighty-two bins to fill the boat. How many bigger, broader, browner, erier, better, Breman Biscuits are in a boat load?

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