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Coin weighing

A counterfeit coin that might be heavy or light, a balance that only reports which side falls, and a hundred dollars a weighing. Counting rules out four; only a construction gets you five.

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Leer la explicación completaNinety coins, one fake, and the weighing that fits by one

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Eight Water Lilies Buy Three Days, and Dividing Says Twenty-Six

One lily doubling daily covers the pond on day thirty, so eight lilies must finish in 30/8 = 3.75 days. They finish on day twenty-seven, because eight is two cubed and that slides the whole schedule exactly three days earlier. The article carries the general rule that k lilies save the floor of log base two of k, the case where five lilies save only two, and the non-overlap assumption the answer quietly rests on.

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A Thousand Cubes, One Shell, and 488

Strip the outer shell off a ten-by-ten-by-ten block of unit cubes and count what falls. The reflex answer, 271, is arithmetic done correctly on the wrong picture: a shell leaves from both opposing faces, so every axis loses two units and not one. Two independent counts land on 488, and the general shell turns out to grow like a surface rather than a volume.

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