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'This' Is The Answer!
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What was the question?
Just count the intersecting points.
First one has 9, second one has only 1 & third has 4.
Hence, the answer is 4.
Lighting Up The Candles
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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?
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From the moment the first candle is lit, how long does it take before all candles are lit?
ESCAPE to answer!
Time Calculation For Lighting Up The Candles
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What is the exact situation?
From a moment from first candle is lit, 30 seconds later there would be total 2 candles lit. In next 30 seconds, each of these 2 candle holders will find 1 candle to lit. So there are now 4 candles lit after 60 seconds. In next 30 seconds, these 4 candles would lit another 4 candles making total 8 candles lit.
In short, for every 30 seconds, the number of candles lit are doubled. So after 7 sets of 30 seconds, 2^7 = 128 candles would be lit. At 8th set of 30 seconds, 256 candles can be lit. But we have only 200 candles. Still 72 of 128 candles would lit another 72 in 8th set of 30 seconds.
To conclude, 8 X 30 = 240 seconds = 4 minutes required to lit all 200 candles.