Thursday, October 2, 2014

Give me the gold

Puzzle:
We have 5 bags of coins.each bag has 50 coins.only one bag has gold coins in it other bags has fake gold coins.each fake coin weighs 1 gram,.each real coins weighs 1.01 grams.
we have a scale and we can use it only once.how to identify which bag has real gold coins.


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Solution:
place the following coins in scale
1 coin from bag 1
2 coins from bag 2
3 coins from bag 3
4 coins from bag 4 and 
5 coins from bag 5 
For example, if the 5 coins weigh 15.05 grams, there must be 5 gold coins. These will have been from bag number 5 if coins weigh 15.04 the gold coins in 4th bag Winner:Aswani

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  2. place the following coins in scale
    1 coin from bag 1
    2 coins from bag 2
    3 coins from bag 3
    4 coins from bag 4 and
    5 coins from bag 5
    For example, if the 5 coins weigh 15.05 grams, there must be 5 gold coins. These will have been from bag number 5 if coins weigh 15.04 the gold coins in 4th bag

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