Friday, April 24, 2009

Fake Gold

You have five bags containing ten gold coins each. Each coin should weigh ten grams. However , the coins in one of the bags are fake, the fake gold only weighs nine grams.

You have a scale that will give a readout to the nearest gram. How can you figure out which bag contains the lighter coin with just one readout?

What if you had a balance scale?

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