You’re in a balloon carrying oranges to be squeezed into juice when it springs a leak. You have 10 minutes to 50 kilograms worth of cargo, otherwise the entire batch of oranges will be ruined. Each orange weighs 250 grams and can be thrown off the side in 10 seconds. However, this also causes you to lose the fruit to be juiced, costing you money. Alternatively, you could peel the orange and toss the rind. The peel only has a mass of 25 grams and takes 30 seconds to remove, but doing so doesn’t waste any of the juicable fruit. You and 4 workers can peel or toss any number of oranges to get underweight in time. What combination of peeling and tossing wastes the least amount of juicable fruit.
