Lighting Up The Candles

In a group of 200 people, everybody has a non burning candle. On person has a match at lights at some moment his candle. With this candle he walks to somebody else and lights a new candle. Then everybody with a burning candle will look for somebody without a burning candle, and if found they will light it. This will continue until all candles are lit. Suppose that from the moment a candle is lit it takes exactly 30 seconds to find a person with a non burning candle and light that candle.

From the moment the first candle is lit, how long does it take before all candles are lit?

Time Needed To Lighting Up The Candles - Maths Puzzle

ESCAPE to answer! 

Comments

  1. Very significant Information for us, I have think the representation of this Information is actually superb one. This is my first visit to your site. The candles

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Follow me on Blogarama