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Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page. Puzzles for all ages! Newer posts →. Solution to Puzzle #145: The WHO Puzzle. July 17, 2016. This was perhaps not an easy problem for children, but I got correct responses from Suman Saraf, Abhinav Jain and Pratik Poddar. The correct answer is 0.01%, that is the probability of you having the disease is very low, even if you have tested positive. Here is a link to the video with the explanation:. An Intuitive (and Short) Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem. July 10, 2016. A group of N.
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Puzzle #101: Shortest Path Touching the X-Axis… | Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page
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Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page. Puzzles for all ages! Solution to Puzzle #100: The 100 Square Rug Puzzle. Solution to Puzzle #101: Shortest Path Touching the X-axis →. Puzzle #101: Shortest Path Touching the X-Axis…. May 17, 2015. Please take a look at the figure above. This is drawn on a standard 2-dimensional grid with an x-axis and a y-axis. There are two points A and B at location (0,1) and (5,11) respectively. Your task is to find a point C on the x-axis such that AC BC is the shortest. You are commentin...
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Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page. Puzzles for all ages! Author Archives: Alok Goyal. Puzzle #150: The Tutu Coin Puzzle :-(. August 14, 2016. This week marks a very sad week for me and for many of the regular readers of this blog. A very dear friend – Girish Tutakne (popularly known as Tutu at IIT Delhi)- passed away in a very unfortunate accident in … Continue reading →. Solution to Puzzle #148: The First Black Ace. August 14, 2016. Puzzle #149: The Funny Plane Seating. August 8, 2016. August 8, 2016. Yet anoth...
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Puzzle #98: How Many Days to be Disease Free | Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page
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Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page. Puzzles for all ages! Solution to Puzzle #97: Pirates and Gold Coins – Part II. Solution to Puzzle #98: How Many Days to be Disease Free →. Puzzle #98: How Many Days to be Disease Free. April 12, 2015. Thanks to Pallav for yet another very interesting, and in this case, a classic puzzle. My 11th grade chemistry teacher, Mr. Gopinath, had given it to me, and I love this puzzle. Here it goes:. This entry was posted in Puzzles. And tagged Alok Goyal. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Solution to Puzzle #99: World’s Most Famous Puzzle Currently | Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page
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Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page. Puzzles for all ages! Puzzle #99: World’s Most Famous Puzzle Currently! Puzzle #100: The 100 square rug puzzle (Prize Puzzle)! Solution to Puzzle #99: World’s Most Famous Puzzle Currently. April 26, 2015. July 16 is the answer. I am taking the liberty of reproducing the answer from Anirudh Baddepudi:. Hence, we are left with July 16, which must be Cheryl’s birthday. Prateek sent a link from New York Times that has a good solution to this puzzle as well:. And tagged Alok Goyal.
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Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page. Puzzles for all ages! Solution to Puzzle #98: How Many Days to be Disease Free. Solution to Puzzle #99: World’s Most Famous Puzzle Currently →. Puzzle #99: World’s Most Famous Puzzle Currently! April 18, 2015. Here is the puzzle:. Albert and Bernard Just became friends with Cheryl, and they want to know when her birthday is. Cheryl gives them a list of 10 possible dates:. May 15 May 16 May 19. June 17 June 18. July 14 July 16. August 14 August 15 August 17. And tagged Alok Goyal.
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Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page. Puzzles for all ages! Puzzle #98: How Many Days to be Disease Free. Puzzle #99: World’s Most Famous Puzzle Currently! Solution to Puzzle #98: How Many Days to be Disease Free. April 18, 2015. Thanks again to Pallav for the puzzle – as I mentioned earlier, one of my favorites and a wonderful concept of mathematical induction to be taught to children. Only two people sent correct answers – Mohit Khare and Pratik Poddar – well done! Hope you enjoyed the puzzle! You are commenting ...
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Solution to Puzzle #100: The 100 Square Rug Puzzle | Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page
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Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page. Puzzles for all ages! Puzzle #100: The 100 square rug puzzle (Prize Puzzle)! Puzzle #101: Shortest Path Touching the X-Axis… →. Solution to Puzzle #100: The 100 Square Rug Puzzle. May 17, 2015. Http:/ www.amazon.in/Colossal-Book-Mathematics-Paradoxes-Problems/dp/0393020231/ref=sr 1 7? S=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431839762&sr=1-7&keywords=martin gardner. Http:/ www.cseblog.com/2014/05/cut-polygon-puzzle.html. I am taking the liberty of copying and pasting Mohit Khare’s answer:. Follow ...
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Alok Goyal's Puzzles Page. Puzzles for all ages! Solution to Puzzle #148: The First Black Ace. August 14, 2016. This was a bit of a counterintuitive puzzle – four people sent the correct answers – Suman Saraf, Pratik Poddar, Abhinav Jain and Karan Sharma – well done! The answer is the first card. It is a bit difficult to imagine … Continue reading →. Solution to Puzzle #147: The “Aha” IBM Puzzle. August 8, 2016. Solution to Puzzle #146: The Proud Party Goers. July 30, 2016. July 17, 2016. July 10, 2016.
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Me, Myself and Mathematics. Saurabh Joshi’s Blog about math, algorithms, theorems, puzzles …. Laquo; Puzzle : A number game. Puzzle : Scaling a Square! Points on a grid. This is again one of the question that tejas faced in the CMI entrance exam. Given an nxn grid. You choose 2n-1 points randomly ( each with different co-ordinates on the grid ). Prove that there will be three points amongst these 2n-1 point forming a right-angle triangle. I used mathematical induction. I am going to prove a general claim.
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