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BMAD

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  1. both excellent answers.
  2. Lets try it together. Hidden Content Again, to obvious to be true. But what is wrong? It can be done in a smaller chute. Sure. Applying quantum physics. I am not sure what you mean, but I am saying in terms of the amount of balls that can be fitted into the chute, this chute can be smaller.
  3. You and a friend have loved a girl since tour childhood days to which she has loved you both equally. The three of you have decided to let fate/chance decide who should end up with the girl. All you have available is an pld wooden coin. The coin that you all know will land on heads 50% more of the time. How can you use this coin in a fair contest to decide who should end up with the girl?
  4. Lets try it together. Hidden Content Again, to obvious to be true. But what is wrong? It can be done in a smaller chute.
  5. I am unsure of what you mean exactly. But the niche must remain stationary and equidistant between the balls, this is not to say that the chute is of equal length on both sides.
  6. What size of chute are you using?
  7. Does the host who spends it originally count as "receiving the bottle"?
  8. A commuter is in the habit of arriving at his suburban station each evening exactly at five o'clock. His wife always meets the train and drives him home. One day he takes an earlier train, arriving at the station at four. The weather is pleasant, so instead of telephoning home he starts walking along the route always taken by his wife. They meet somewhere along the way. He gets in the car and drives home. He arrives home, ten minutes ahead of schedule. If his wife and train trip always go at the same speed. How long did the man walk this day?
  9. An old riddle runs as follows. An explorer walks one mile due south, turns and walks one mile due east, turns again and walks one mile due north. He finds himself back where he started. He shoots a bear. What color is the bear? The time-honored answer is: "White," because the explorer musty have started at the North Pole. But not long ago someone made the discovery that the North Pole is not the only starting point that satisfies the given conditions! Where else can someone walk a mile south, a mile, east, a mile north and find himself back at his original location?
  10. In a long narrow chute there are 8 balls: 4 black ones on the left and 4 white ones - slightly larger - on the right. In the middle of the chute there is a small niche that can hold 1 ball of either color. The chute's right end has an opening large enough for a black but not a white ball. The chute is long enough to hold 11 balls. Explain how you will roll out all of the black balls. What is the smallest the chute can be?
  11. I got (depending on the definition of answer)
  12. I don't know if this helps but:
  13. yeah so far, i can't get it in under 7 moves
  14. Allow for a random set of 32 numbers to be chosen from 0 to 100. pair and average the 32 numbers in the order they appear ([1,2]; [3,4],...) to make 16 numbers pair and average each of the 16 averaged numbers to make 8 new numbers continue in this fashion until you have only 1 number. What is the probability that this number will be be in the 40's?
  15. The computer makes an affirmative noise. The chain is released from the device but remained attached to your arm. You go to pull it off, the machine matched your force by clamping equally hard into your arm. You stop tugging on the machine and look at the interface. Looking at the screen you see the phrase, "not yet". One of the two men on the oposite walls, coughs. You remember, your wits returning, that you are not alone. Looking at the two men, they stare upon you, pale and nervous. You take a step towards them, when the machine vibrates. You look at it and see... These men are evil. One is more evil than the other. You should punish them. The brorhers are involved in a murder. Though it was known that one of them committed the crime, neither could be convicted. You have two choices: 1. Figure out why they couldnt be covicted 2. Have one confess for the murder. Knowing that the brothers would lie, what will you do?
  16. The computer activates. Thousands of ones and Zero's run across the screen. After what seems like five minutes, something else comes on the screen: If two of the below statements are for sure false, what chance is there that you were in the room first? 1. You came in first. 2. They came in first. 3. One and two is wrong. Only one of them came in in front of you. 4. 3 is wrong. Please indicate the correct response: ___
  17. the computer keeps repeating the same response... /incorrect password. Please retry/
  18. OK, if there is crescent moon outside, this is one of the answers. If there is a moon out period, this works. The clock will orient you to the appropriate angle needed to use the second method.
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