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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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