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Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Sweet trivial pursuit...

You have 10 bags of candies. Each bag has 10 candies. The weight for each bag is 100grams. And each candy weighs 10 grams. But you have one (1) bag of defected candies and that particular bag weighs 110grams thus each candy weighing 11grams each.

You can't tell the difference in weight and size with the naked eye.

With a digital weighing scale, how do you find out which bag from the 10 is the defected one just by weighing the (sweets,packages) ONCE. You are allowed to do anything with any of bags. But REMEMBER, you are only allowed to weigh once. And once it is on the scale, you cannot add/subtract the sweets on the scale. So make the best out of your only try. Good luck!

Your mission whether you choose to accept it or not is "how do you determine which is the defect bag of candies just by weighing once?"

This problem solving scenario is entirely logical, so please do try your best. This entry will self explode into a cloud of cotton candy in 10 seconds. Please take your time with this as it may stay in your mind for quite some time.

And NO, I would not disclose the solution to this quizzical intellectual property just in case you have given up in the span of 3 minutes. Have fun now... 10...9...8...7... <--- insert your own imagination of exploding cotton buds, flakes or clouds here!--->


Currently listening to: Back to mine, EBTG
Am feeling: Bright and needing a haircut

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