Today's blog is sort of different. It works on mathematics and requires a bit of logic. This question was posed by minutephysics and I thought that I would elaborate on it a bit.
The Questions is quite simple: There are a hundred people standing in a line in a room. Each of you take a one dollar bill and write your number(in the row) on the one dollar bill and hand it to me. Now I take these 100 one dollar bills and randomly put them in boxes also numbered from one to hundred. One by one you enter the room and are allowed to look in 50 of the boxes. Now here's the deal. If you all happen to find the one dollar bill with your number marked on it I give you each a hundred dollars.
A few rules however apply:
1. All of you are allowed to discuss a strategy to win
2. You will enter the room in one way and leave another
3. Once you come out of the room you are not allowed to tell the others what you saw.
So the question is:
Will you take the bet and hope to get a $101 profit?
The choice is yours.........
Comment your answer below.
The Questions is quite simple: There are a hundred people standing in a line in a room. Each of you take a one dollar bill and write your number(in the row) on the one dollar bill and hand it to me. Now I take these 100 one dollar bills and randomly put them in boxes also numbered from one to hundred. One by one you enter the room and are allowed to look in 50 of the boxes. Now here's the deal. If you all happen to find the one dollar bill with your number marked on it I give you each a hundred dollars.
A few rules however apply:
1. All of you are allowed to discuss a strategy to win
2. You will enter the room in one way and leave another
3. Once you come out of the room you are not allowed to tell the others what you saw.
So the question is:
Will you take the bet and hope to get a $101 profit?
The choice is yours.........
Comment your answer below.
This can be done easily, following the fact that there are 50 boxes and 100 people-
ReplyDeleteTake a person, say p1.
P1 opens the first drawer.
If it's his number, then it's done.
If it is, say p2's number, then p2 doesn't have to be involved, reducing the stats to 98 people and 49 boxes.
This can keep happening till p1 finds his own number.
Am I 101$ richer now? ��
The thing is each person can only look into 50 boxes. No more than that.
ReplyDeleteP1 can only look into 50 boxes and until he finds is own no one else can come. If p1 finds p2's number it won't help as p2 needs to find his own number for it to count.
who's here from 2019 lol
ReplyDeleteidk man maybe like 1 could see the first 50 boxes, 2 could see multiples of 2, 3 could see multiples of 3 and so on lol idk sup bro