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9 marbles riddle answer.
A short fun riddle regarding 9 marbles a balance and a 2 measurement limit.
You ll then close your eyes he ll hand you the jar you picked and you ll pick a random marble from that jar.
The single 9 shows up as the rightmost digit in the sum of all the weights.
A rightmost 7 means it is the third bag with the 9 gram marbles.
Mary is not a nurse.
Before reading the answer can i interest you in a clue.
You will discover that there is only one line where only one of statements one two and three are true.
He fills the jars with the marbles put the two jars behind his back and tell you to pick one of them at random.
Scale tilts left means the heavy coin is in group 1 2 3.
If the number of grams ends in 8 it is the second bag with the 9 gram marbles because 2 times 9 equals 18 and that will be added to the total producing a number ending in 8.
There are three possible outcomes.
If they balance the different coin is number 12.
If they do not balance then 11 is the different coin.
Put 1 2 3 on the left side and 4 5 6 on the right side.
Your friend has 100 red marbles 100 blue marbles and 2 jars.
Mark will have to give sam 5 marbles.
Weigh coin 1 against 11.
So for our second weighing we would put 1 2 in the left pan and 9 10 on the right.
If these balance then the different coin is either 11 or 12.
If 1 2 vs 9 10 do not balance then the different coin is either 9 or 10.
Test your math skills and word play with answers included.
Not nearly as difficult as the the previous two problems of this type.
Next fill in the chart according to statements 1 through 3.
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