TED-Ed: Can you solve the fish riddle? - Steve Wyborney

In this video, you are the cargo director on the SS Buoyant, tasked with rescuing endangered fish tanks lost during a storm. With limited resources, you must determine the number of missing tanks using sector analysis and logical deduction. By analyzing the number of sharks and fish, and using a table to compare data, you deduce that there are 13 tanks with 39 fish, each tank containing 3 fish. Successfully retrieving the tanks, you save the species from extinction.

What is the main responsibility of the cargo director on the SS Buoyant?

How many tanks were identified in sector alpha and sector beta?

What unique property does the area have regarding the number of sharks in each sector?

What is the maximum number of fish that could be in the tanks based on the total organisms counted?

How did the cargo director determine the number of fish in each tank?