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ranger99
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7 ounces of gold
« on: Feb 8th, 2005, 2:01pm » |
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An emplyer has to pay his sole employee an ounce of golf every day for 7 days. This must come from a solid bar that is 7 ounces in weight and can only be cut twice. How does he accomplish this?
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Padzok
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Re: 7 ounces of gold
« Reply #1 on: Feb 8th, 2005, 2:22pm » |
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Just cut it so you have pieces of 1 oz, 2oz, 4oz
That make all the combinations 1 to 7.
Some days you'll need him to give you a bar back from one of the earlier days...so tell him not to sell them until day 7.
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Re: 7 ounces of gold
« Reply #2 on: Feb 8th, 2005, 3:01pm » |
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I reckon that's the intended answer, but it clearly doesn't work. Why not just give the employee a small chunk (maybe 3 oz) of the gold at the start of the week to tide them over, then give them the rest at the end of the week. Same thing, and you lose less gold cutting it.
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Re: 7 ounces of gold
« Reply #3 on: Feb 8th, 2005, 3:46pm » |
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Probably coz he doesnt trust the employee to show up again.
A rational employee obviously would do so if employment is scarce.
But what if he can easily get a job paying an ounce of gold per day ...
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Re: 7 ounces of gold
« Reply #4 on: Feb 8th, 2005, 6:09pm » |
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If some git of a manager was to give me 1 oz of gold, tell me to take it home, bring it back the next day and swap if for 2oz, take them home, and the next day give me 1 oz of gold for me to take home, only to bring that AND the 2 oz back the next day to swap it for the 4 oz bar etc.. I'd quit.
And get a job that wasn't going to make me starve during the week.
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