Any person smart enough to clear all of the brain teasers in order to get to that point should be far well able to do the final one that starts "an engineer is given free food at work in lieu of $X salary, calculate the value of X at which this is a fair deal..."
My point was that X=$20k doesn't even come close to passing the sniff test. Its absurd.
Not sure that would work in the situation as Rachel described since the free food was still there, just with decreased availability and ubiquitousness.
That would depend entirely on the specifics of how the contract was written to include the food. If it just said generic food, sure. If it specified a monetary value, then I think she'd have a case.
My point was that X=$20k doesn't even come close to passing the sniff test. Its absurd.