If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
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I suspect there is some "outside the box" solution:
Light all the cigs simultaneously and see if one burns faster/slower.
Make sure the tobacco in all of the sample cigs is packed equally tightly and see which paper wrapper is fuller.
Smoke a sample from each machine and see which one raises your heart rate more or less.
If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
550 - 543 = 7. implying that 7th machine is faulty.
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Originally posted by Monica Dharwad:
Thats easy.
1. number machines as 1 to 10
2. produce n cigarettes from nth machine. i.e. machine 1 produces 1 cigarette, machine 2 produces 2 cigarettes... machine 8th produces 8 cigarettes and so on.
3. weigh all the cigarettes produced once.
if none of the machine was faulty then the total weight of the cigarettes would have been 1x10 + 2x10 + .... 10x10 = 550
but one of the machine is faulty let it be the 7th machine(for e.g.) then the weigh of the produced cigarettes is
1x10 + 2x10 + 3x10 + 4x10 + 5x10 + 6x10 + 7x9 + 8x10 + 9x10 + 10x10 =
10+20+30+40+50+60+63+80+90+100 = 543
550 - 543 = 7. implying that 7th machine is faulty.
Thanks
Originally posted by Monica Dharwad:
Thats easy.
1. number machines as 1 to 10
2. produce n cigarettes from nth machine. ...
3. weigh all the cigarettes produced once.
if none of the machine was faulty then the total weight of the cigarettes would have been 1x10 + 2x10 + .... 10x10 = 550 ...
Originally posted by... well... me:
Apparently there is something that I don't realize I "know" in Steve's scenario.
Originally posted by Steve Fahlbusch:
Sorry, been gone...
Anyway the trick to this one is to know the largest and smallest delta possible - but to make it easy lets say that the off machine is at least 1% off and less than 50% off - so bad sig is in the range of 5-9.9 oz or 10.1 to 15.
Then it becomes simple take 1 from machine 1 - take 101 from 2, take 100001 from three and so on. just make sure that: the number you grab from each will separate the deltas into descrete ranges.
Also note: the others have be to dead on, or this could be messy.
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