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A vendor is handing out free ice cream cones in alphabetical order of flavor, each cone being a different flavor. Kids are lined up at the ice cream truck, and you’re first in line! The vendor will hand you ice cream cones one at a time, and you must decide whether to keep the cone or pass it on to the next kid in line. The first cone is guaranteed to be chocolate.
You like all flavors equally, so you want to randomly select a cone with each flavor having an equal chance of being chosen. Unfortunately, you don’t know the total number of flavors, but being the little hipster that you are, you are carrying a pocket calculator which can generate random numbers from 1 to X, where X is a value you punch in. How can you decide which flavor to keep?
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Say you have some bendable wires (any number, any length). What is the minimum number of solder connections needed to make a cube? Prove it. Also, what is the minimum number of wires necessary? Prove it.
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There is a person who delivers milk to houses. He has lost some of his measuring utensils. He has left with only 3 utensils of sizes 3 Liters, 5 Liters, and 8 Liters. The Milkman is having 8 Liters of milk and he has to deliver 4 Liters of milk. Your Task is to help him measure exactly 4 Liters using the above mentioned utensils only. You can tell him the solution by writing steps or by drawing the utensils and coloring the parts filled with milk.
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There’s a man lying dead in a telephone booth beside a river. The phone is off the hook, and there is smashed glass on the floor of the phone booth. What happened?
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John and Jacob are on the two opposite banks of a river. They both have a rowing boat.
They both start at the same time towards the opposite bank. They pass each other at 180 meters from the bank where john departed. When reaching the opposite bank, they both take a rest for the same amount of time before they return. On the way back, they pass each other at 100 meters from the bank from where John returned.
John and Jacob both row with a constant speed, but Jacob rows faster.
How wide is the river?
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Imagine a disk spinning like a record player turn table. Half of the disk is black and the other is white. Assume you have an unlimited number of colour sensors. How many sensors would you have to place around the disk to determine the direction the disk is spinning? Where would they be placed?
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