Step-by-step explanation:
19 kids get an apple each, the 20th kid gets the basket with the apple in it, that’s the answer you want, right?
Well that’s a bogus answer, because how come one kid gets a free basket, and why do you even care that the basket has an apple in it if you don’t get to keep it anyway?
Plus it’s not “all the apples to each one of them” is it? No, it’s one apple each, and different apples are different sizes and degrees of ripeness and maybe some have bruises and it’s just inherently unfair.
Instead, I take 19 apples, and I make applesauce, and I distribute the applesauce using a precision scale so every child gets an exactly equal amount of applesauce, and I keep one apple in the basket, which I keep.
Now, of course it’s not quite “ALL the apples” to the children, but you cannot have your cake and eat it too. I gave an equal amount of apple to each child, and if it was 5% short of all the apples, well, it was, but what of it, that’s the best I can do and still keep one apple in the basket.
Because I am NOT giving one child the basket and having the other nineteen kids complaining about why Johnny got a basket and they didn’t, plus where’s my basket? No, I don’t think so.
