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| + | ====== 22 prisoners ====== | ||
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| + | The are 23 prisoners and a guard gives them a task to accomplish in order for them to go free. Each prisoner is told to enter a room with two switches and has to turn one of them on or off. The guard takes the prisoners to the room randomly and they are supposed to tell him when all of them have entered the room at least once. What is the best strategy for them to assure that they have all entered the room? | ||
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| + | ====== Instruments ====== | ||
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| + | There are 4 musicians that play 4 different instruments. A man takes each of there instruments and places them in a box labeled with there instruments name. He then randomly switches instruments in the boxes (Remember that the boxes are labeled and keep the originals labels). He then asks them to find there instrument and each musician can only open two boxes. They are also only allowed to talk to each other about a strategy prior to the first musician checking the boxes. What is the best strategy for them to get their instruments with the least amount of chance? | ||
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| + | ====== Trees ====== | ||
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| + | A farmer gets home and his daughter asks him what he did that day, and he replies, "I planted 4 trees per row of 5 rows." The daughter replies, "So you planted 20 trees." And the farmer replies, "No, but you should know how many I planted from the homework that you did yesterday with a star on it." How many tree did the farmer plant? | ||
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| ===== Questions Asked ===== | ===== Questions Asked ===== | ||
| | Junming Diao | 2 | | | Junming Diao | 2 | | ||
| - | | Mark Ruzindana | 1 | | + | | Mark Ruzindana | 2 | |
| - | | Dr. Jeffs | 1 | | + | | Dr. Jeffs | 2 | |
| - | | Richard Black | 1 | | + | | Richard Black | 2 | |
| - | | Dr. Warnick | 0 | | + | | Dr. Warnick | 1 | |
| - | | Mitchell Burnett | 1 | | + | | Mitchell Burnett | 2 | |
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