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1000 bottles
You are the ruler of a kingdom and you throw a huge party. You are poisoned when you drink from one of the bottles in the party. There are 1000 bottles for you to choose from and you have 24 hours before you die. You get prisoners to try each one of the bottles to see which one had the poison. If the poison can kill any prisoner in 10 to 20 hours, what is the minimum number of prisoners that you can use?
Matches
Cubes
Move 5 cubes so that 5 faces from each of the cubes is touching (Corners and edges don't count).
Passengers On A Plane
There are 100 seats on a plane, and 100 passengers that correspond to each of those seats (The first passenger will have the first seat, the second will have the second and so on). If one of the passengers chooses to sit in a random seat, then the passenger that finds him/her in their seat goes to an empty seat. What is the probability that the 100th passenger sits in his/her seat?
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