"Question: The owner of a banana plantation has a camel. He wants to transport his 3000 bananas to the market, which is located after the desert. The distance between his banana plantation and the market is about 1000 kilometer. So he decided to take his camel to carry the bananas. The camel can carry at the maximum of 1000 bananas at a time, and it eats one banana for every kilometer it travels.
What is the largest number of bananas that can be delivered to the market?"
Found here: http://www.mytechinterviews.com/challenge-camel-and-bananas
The solution is in the link above.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Chocolate Bar Break (Math Fun Day 2 Problem 1)
You have a chocolate bar that is 3 x 5. What is the least number of breaks you can use to break it into 1x1 blocks? You can only break horizontally or vertically, can't stack the chocolate.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Math Fun Day 1 Problem #3: The Pirate Game
Five pirates are deciding how to split up 100 gold coins. Pirate 5 must propose a plan to split up the coins. All pirates will then vote on the plan. If the plan receives a majority vote, they split up the coins and go about their plundery ways. If pirate 5's plan loses the vote, he has to walk the plank and pirate 4 proposes a plan with only 4 pirates remaining. The process repeats until a plan is accepted. Pirates follow theses rules:
- No pirate will make a vote that will result in his or her death.
- All pirates want to maximize their own gold.
- If a pirate will get the same deal for themselves later down the line, they will vote against it the first time so one of their fellow pirates has to walk the plank.
So, without getting too far into it what pirate do you think you want to be?
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Too bad you're pirate 5. What plan do you propose to live and maximize your gold?
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Extensions: Add more pirates!
Add even more pirates!(More than 100)
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