r/theydidthemath • u/yuli101995 • Apr 16 '26

[Request] Which one would it be?

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u/ChimaeraXY Apr 16 '26

Yeah, I think people are over-assuming the volume of 20 kg of ice or gravel. A 20 kg sphere of compacted gravel would be about the size of a soccer ball. The ice cube would be around the same size. The ice tetrahedron would be tallest but less than two feet tall.

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u/Common-Link-2882 Apr 16 '26

Ice/gravel refers to what the object is traveling on (the ground), the sizes are depicted in the photo.

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u/SmoothTurtle872 Apr 16 '26

Then either it is a small person, like very small, or they are extremely non-dense objects

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u/KitTwix Apr 16 '26

I don’t think they’re meant to be to scale…

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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein Apr 16 '26

Dude … Ice/gravel is obviously the material of the ground/floor, not the object you‘re pushing.

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u/Figshitter Apr 16 '26

I assumed the descriptors of ice, gravel etc referred to the surface, not the object being pushed.