Mike,
Are you sure this is all? I don't think you can learn the answer from one
use of the scale. Too many variables are involved.
Ken (no king) Landaiche
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From: ext Mike Lee - Team Banana Racing [mailto:mikel@ichips.intel.com]
Oh, and a brain teaser from a friend I haven't been able to figure out. I
know
how resourceful you guys are, so maybe you can figure it out:
"You are a king with a balance scale. You have ten tax collectors, but you
suspect that one has been stealing 10 grams from every 100 grams of gold
that he
collects. How do you tell for certain which bag is short money with only
one use
of the scale? Things you should know: you can only place or take away bags
all
at once (in other words, you can not put them all on and take them off one
by one,
or vice versa)."
Any ideas?
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