ronnie_willey

You're sick of chemical engineering. Questionable timing, but okay. You decide to up and quit and join a farm as a workhand. Hey, whatever makes you happy. While you're there, you decide that the method of collecting eggs from the chickens is far too time-consuming and could be rapidly sped up. After a brief period of tinkering over some old scrap metal, you emerge from the barn one day with your greatest invention: The Egg-Sucker 5000. You've revolutionized omelettes! Congratulations!

Your device is simple: multiple vacuum lines collect eggs from the nests, deliver them into a single intermediate containment tank, after which they are properly distributed into packaging from an exit line. Unfortunately, the vacuum lines are so powerful, the eggs emerge in a spherical shape. Oh, well.

Because the tank itself is sealed (to minimize scrambling), it is imperative that the tank not overfill, which would cause the system to explode. You may assume that there are no gaps in spacing between the eggs in the tank.

What is 2 + 2?

Okay, look, this was a fantastic eggscellent exam question and I'm sorry that it upset you so much.

I expected better from you, man