Professor Bonk

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Professor Bonk


Introductory Chemistry at Duke University has been taught for about
a zillion years by Professor Bonk (really), and his course is
semi-affectionately known as "Bonkistry." He has been around
forever, so I wouldn't put it past him to come up with something 
like this.

Anyway, one year there were these two guys who were taking
Chemistry and who did pretty well on all of the quizzes and the 
midterms and labs, etc., such that going into the final they had 
a solid A.  

These two friends were so confident going into the final that the
weekend before finals week (even though the Chem final was on Monday),
they decided to go up to UVirginia and party with some friends up
there.

So they did this and had a great time.  However, with their hangovers
and everything, they overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it
back to Duke until early monday morning.  Rather than taking the final
then, what they did was to find Professor Bonk after the final and
explain to him why they missed the final.  They told him that they went 
up to UVa for the weekend, and had planned to come back in time to 
study, but that they had a flat tire on the way back and didn't have 
a spare and couldn't get help for a long time and so were late getting 
back to campus.

Bonk thought this over and then agreed that they could make up the
final on the following day.  The two guys were elated and
relieved. So, they studied that night and went in the next day at the 
time that Bonk had told them.  He placed them in separate rooms and 
handed each of them a test booklet and told them to begin. They looked 
at the first problem, which was something simple about molarity and
solutions and was worth 5 points.  "Cool" they thought, "this is going 
to be easy." They did that problem and then turned the page. They were
unprepared, however, for what they saw on the next page.  It said:

                (95 points)  Which tire?


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