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There has been a mistake at the apple farm...
By: dinesh Date: August 22, 2012, 1:45 am
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There has been a mistake at the apple farm
Someone has mixed up the apples. Read carefully what has
happened. Can you find a way to help solve the problem.
There are 10 baskets containing apples.
There are various amounts of apples in each basket ranging from
10 to 20.
9 of the baskets contain apples weighing 4 ounces each.
1 of the baskets contains apples weighing 5 ounces each.
Can we find out which basket contains the 5 ounce apples?
All the apples look the same.
The equipment you have is a set of scales and an empty basket.
It is late and the lorry is waiting to take the apples to
market. You only have time to make one measurement using the
scales.
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Re: There has been a mistake at the apple farm...
By: kranthipls Date: August 22, 2012, 10:10 am
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What is the maximum weight the scales can hold?
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Re: There has been a mistake at the apple farm...
By: dinesh Date: August 24, 2012, 1:37 am
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no limit
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Re: There has been a mistake at the apple farm...
By: kpr29 Date: November 19, 2012, 10:25 pm
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@Majeti: Label each basket....... 1 to n........ Take the number
of apples from the basket which should be equal to the label
number..... Theoratically calculate the weight of apples
assuming all the apples are of same weight.......... Now get the
real time value and do a difference with the pre-calculated
value......... From that we can boil down to the basket which
have different weight..........
K my question how u will find out if 2 basket are of same weight
of apples and other 8 are same...........
kp.
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Re: There has been a mistake at the apple farm...
By: dinesh Date: November 20, 2012, 12:00 am
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The difference gives the basket number...
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