(related to Problem: The See-saw Puzzle)
The boy's weight must have been about $39.79$ lbs. A brick weighed $3$ lbs. Therefore $16$ bricks weighed $48$ lbs. and $11$ bricks $33$ lbs. Multiply $48$ by $33$ and take the square root
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