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by JJH41924
April 28th, 2011, 2:03 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: How to measure height of Sears Tower?
Replies: 15
Views: 35108

How to measure height of Sears Tower?

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by JJH41924
October 27th, 2010, 1:15 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Expected number of balls to select
Replies: 6
Views: 26365

Expected number of balls to select

Well I think it is (1/My answer) = # of balls to select. But explain how it is wrong/ give a counter example.
by JJH41924
October 27th, 2010, 11:54 am
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Expected number of balls to select
Replies: 6
Views: 26365

Expected number of balls to select

The general form (ii) is:In this case n = 5 and thus:in the specific uniform case (i) where
by JJH41924
July 19th, 2010, 1:14 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Lawn Olympics
Replies: 3
Views: 28753

Lawn Olympics

<t>wileysw, Thank you for answering my question. I apologize for being unclear. I left out an important detail that you have made me aware of. Each team must play each game and each other team in the span of N-1 rounds. However, there exists only one instance of each game, and thus each game can onl...
by JJH41924
July 13th, 2010, 4:01 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: Lawn Olympics
Replies: 3
Views: 28753

Lawn Olympics

<t>Assume you have 8 teams playing in a round robin tournament. Obviously in order for each team to play each other team there must be 7 rounds (N-1). Now let us say that there are 7 different games that each team must play. (ex: 1 Hole washers, 3 hole washer, Bocce Ball, Horse Shoes, etc.) The ques...