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    • On an Island, lives a population of highly intelligent dwarfs. The dwarfs all look exactly alike, but only differ in the fact that they are wearing either a red or a blue hat. Striking however, is that none of the dwarfs knows what the colour of his or her hat is. This is because it is forbidden to speak about the colour of the hats, and there no mirrors on the island. Nevertheless, the dwarfs do know that there is at least one dwarf with a red hat.

      Once every century, there is a big party on the island, to which initially all dwarfs will go. However, this party is only intended for dwarfs wearing a blue hat. Dwarfs with a red hat are supposed not to return to the party the next day, as soon as they know that they are wearing a red hat.

      How many days did it take before there were no more dwarfs with a red hat left at the last party, if you know that there were then 250 dwarfs with a red hat and 150 dwarfs with a blue hat?

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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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