Eat a banana, carry one 0.5 miles, drop it, and return. Repeat. Total bananas: 4 0 1 2 3 |---.-:-|-------|-------| Bananas 2 Camel C Eat a banana, carry one 0.75 miles, drop it, and walk back to the 0.5 mile mark Total bananas: 6 0 1 2 3 |---.-:-|-------|-------| Bananas 2 1 Camel C Eat a banana, carry one 0.5 miles and drop it at 1.0, and return to the 0.75 mile mark (with 0.25 bananas left in the stomach) 0 1 2 3 |---.-:-|-------|-------| Bananas 1 1 Camel C Pick up the banana, return to the 1 mile mark 0 1 2 3 |---.-:-|-------|-------| Bananas 2 Camel C Eat one banana, carry the other one to the 2 mile mark Eat the last banana, walk to the 3 mile mark, and hope the location of the oasis on your map is correct