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the order does not matter because the Lion can move to any part of the cage before starting his pursuit.

• tomelders 15y ago
  my point is, I always mix the real with the hypothetical and get hooked up on details that prevent me from answering questions like this. Lions are very territorial, and respectful of territory. If a lion tamer enters a a cage with a lion already in it then he is invading a lions territory. If a lion enters a cage with a lion tamer in it, the the lion understands that he is invading someone else's territory and is highly unlikely to attack. It's for this reason that you'll never see a Lion tamer enter a cage full of lions. He or She will always enter the cage first, and the lions will follow. It has no bearing on a hypothetical question, but in reality it would make a huge difference. I remember as a kid, a math teacher carefully explaining to me why my answer to a question that involved cooking was wrong. The maths assumed you could just increase the quantity of ingredients proportionally to the number of people you were cooking for, but that's not always the case, and in this example I was right in reality, but wrong mathematically.