Pigeon Drop Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 A multi millionaire eccentric stoolie has invited you to his mansion for dinner. After dinner, over a glass of fine cognac he tells you that he has a proposition for you. He leads you to a brightly lit room with three sacks on the floor, each sack containing a number of gleaming one ounce gold coins. The sacks are of different sizes, varying from a few hundred coins in the smallest to around a thousand coins in the largest. All the coins are identical in appearance, but alas he tells you that two of the sacks contain coins made of worthless counterfeit gold, while one sack contains genuine gold coins. While the genuine coins weigh exactly 1.00 ounces each, the counterfeit coins, though exactly the same size and shape, weigh 1.10 ounces each. Also in the room is a scale accurate to 0.01 ounces. The way it operates is you place what you want weighed on the platform, and press a button. There is no display on the scale, instead a paper tape is printed and comes out of the side of the scale imprinted with the weight. Finally, there is only enough paper tape left in the scale for one weighing. After taking one weight in this manner, the scale may not be used again. You are allowed to carry any one sack home with you that evening to keep. How will you determine which sack to take home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenOfEleven Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 Hey... this sounds exactly like a quarterly report! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pigeon Drop Posted January 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 OK I edited it finally to make it read right. I think it is correct now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenOfEleven Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 OK I edited it finally to make it read right. I think it is correct now. I was only teasing - corporate reports tend to read like math puzzles (to me anyway!). I'm not smart enough for this - I'd have to bite a few coins like underdog does as shoe shine boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drano Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 I will pull out the gun I borrowed from Hypertiger and take all three sacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenOfEleven Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 Okay, okay - I think I've got this! Take one coin from two different bags and pop 'em on the scale together. If the weight is 2.2oz then the bag you didn't grab from is it. If the weight is 2.1oz then... uh... carp... bite one :grin: *sigh* Can I borrow your gun Drano? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AssMaster Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 You take one coin from sack 1, two coins from sack 2, and three coins from sack three. if the weight is: 6.50 choose sack 1 6.40 choose sack 2 6.30 choose sack 3 Do I win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenOfEleven Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 You take one coin from sack 1, two coins from sack 2, and three coins from sack three. if the weight is: 6.50 choose sack 1 6.40 choose sack 2 6.30 choose sack 3 Do I win? Clever... uh - I was going to say that next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pigeon Drop Posted January 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 OK you guys got it. Too easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AssMaster Posted January 28, 2003 Report Share Posted January 28, 2003 Too easy...or perhaps I am a freaking genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plantigrade Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 Now what's the name and address of that rich stoolie again ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregFokker Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 Good job- trim 5 off my supposed IQ :wink2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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