Question 12/01

BAD WEATHER

One winter day a weatherman in New York said that the snow was melted by the recent rainfall and that's why there were floods. There were about 30 inches of snow and about 1 inch of rain. Is the weatherman correct in his assertion?

This question was asked by Robert Ristinen at the 1996 oral exam at University of Colorado at Boulder.

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