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We have an egg problem again. There is a 36 story building for which you have complete access. You have two eggs and you must follow the below facts:
An egg that does not breaks on falling can be re used.
1) A broken egg will be discarded immediately
2) All the eggs will experience the same effect of the fall as all the eggs are identical.
3) Suppose if an egg breaks on falling from first floor, it will definitely break from all the floors above the first floor.
4) If an egg does not breaks from falling from the thirty sixth floor, it will not break from all the floor below it as well.
5) All you have to do is find out the minimum drops with which you can determine the floor which is safe to drop eggs from.
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You have infinite supply of water. You also have 5 quart and 3 quart buckets. What is the least number of steps you will require to measure precisely 4 quarts?
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Here is a situation. You have 10 boxes that contains balls with each of the ball weighing 10 grams precisely. Now among the boxes, one of the box comprises of defective balls with each defective ball weighing 9 grams. You have been provided with an electronic weighing machine but you are allowed to use it only once.
Can you find out which box contains defective balls?
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A train is moving from station A to station B at 15 mph. Another train is moving in the opposite direction from station B to A at a speed of 20mph. A vulture is flying from Station A to station B at 25 mph. When the vulture reaches at the train moving from Station B to A, it starts flying back and flies at the same speed till it reaches the train moving from station A to B and starts flying in the reverse direction again. The vulture keeps flying to and fro till both the trains collide with each other.
What is the total distance that is traveled by the vulture?
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You are a king of an empire. You have a servant working in your palace. He works all the seven days and you only pay him in the form of gold bar. You must pay the worker for his work every day at the end of the day.
If you are only able to make two breaks in the gold bar, how will you pay the servant if the servant works for the equal time every day and thus equal amount must be paid at the end of the day?
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