"HDRDTD" wrote in message ...
If you look at it from a simplistic point of view and you assume the box occupies 2 segments, then
the right box is 3 times as far away (the correct answer) but if you compare from the middle of
the left box to the middle of the right box, then the ratios appears to be 5:1 not 3:1.

you need to look at the test as an ENTRANCE exam, rather tha as a final examine. Don't make things
more complicated than they need to be.

I dare you to take a real set of boxes and a real lever and fulcrum and
try it. You will not get 100. As illustrated (and assuming that the boxes are
homogeneous) the correct answer is 60.