What Happens When I Eat More Doughnuts Than Planned?

[julian]

I buy a box of 28 doughnuts with the intention of eating two doughnuts each lunch time. If I stick to two doughnuts per day I end up eating the last two doughnuts on say a Thursday. (I then need to start the next box of 28 doughnuts the day after that on the Friday at lunch time.)

I have a question about the first box of 28 doughnuts...

QUESTION: If on some of the lunch times I eat 3 doughnuts instead of 2 (so I eat an extra doughnut), how many extra doughnuts would I have eaten in order to have none left to eat on the Wednesday?

Here are two different answers:

ANSWER A: If I don't have the two doughnuts I was going to eat on the Thursday and if I don't
have the two I was going to eat on the Wednesday, I must have eaten FOUR extra
doughnuts.

ANSWER B: I would have to start the second box of doughnuts on the Wednesday instead of
starting it on the Friday. Wednesday lunch time is 3 days earlier than Friday lunch time because we can count Wednesday 1, Thursday 2, Friday 3. Therefore I must have eaten 3 day's worth extra or in other words SIX extra doughnuts.

Which answer is correct?

 

[PeroK]

If Wednesday is 3 days earlier than Friday, then Thursday is 2 days earlier than Friday, then Friday is a day earlier than Friday, and, I guess, Saturday is then the same day as Friday?

 

[julian]

If Wednesday is 3 days earlier than Friday, then Thursday is 2 days earlier than Friday, then Friday is a day earlier than Friday, and, I guess, Saturday is then the same day as Friday?

Are you saying ANSWER B is absurd?

 

[PeroK]

Are you saying ANSWER B is absurd?

Yes, it's absurd!

 

[julian]

Hi PeroK. Is ANSWER A O.K.?

 

[nuuskur]

By your definition of counting days, Each day is 1 day earlier than the day itself. So we have a problem with B.
E: oh nvm, PeroK already mentioned this, I was just reading the first post.

 

[PeroK]

Hi PeroK. Is ANSWER A O.K.?

Yes, it's got to be 4.

 

[DaveC426913]

Another way of saying the same thing:

Wednesday lunch time is 3 days earlier than Friday lunch time because we can count Wednesday 1, Thursday 2, Friday 3.

No you can't. Wednesday beginning-of-lunch (say, 12PM) to Friday beginning-of-lunch (12PM) is 2 days, not 3.

What you're trying to do is count Wednesday 12PM to Friday 1PM.

 

[BobG]

A is correct, but it's also irrelevant. Those doughnuts will be stale by the first Monday.

 

[dipole]

Since you got an answer let's talk about eating doughnuts every day for lunch... please tell me no one actually does that. You may as well be eating candy.

 

[julian]

I just came up with doughnuts for the purposes of the question.