I’m not limiting anybody’s imagination. If people wanna imagine having kids with a dragon, they can. But I’m gonna say it’s not possible cuz I don’t like kids.
11 at the START of minute 3. It asks at the end, which would be the start of 4. If we're assuming that the ice cubes melt in the one minute (which you were, assuming at the start of each minute there was zero ice cubes in the pan), then the answer is zero.
I was wrong. No assumption is made about when the ice cubes melt. In fact the question is flawed. It assumes the melting rate of the ice cubes in the pan. We can't know how many are in the pan at the end of minute 3 because we don't know how many melted. You're right that 11 is how many were put in.
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4 in minute 1, 5 in minute 2, 11 in minute 3, none in minute 4, it adds up to 20, which when divided by 4 equals 5
None,
All of them, or
42.