Question

Bruce Wain is hosting a lavish launch party for his new EdTech venture. His butler Alfredo has prepared a thousand gift hampers which the guests will receive. Bruce gets a message from his archnemesis, the Jokester, that he has put a small vial of laughing gas into exactly one of the thousand hampers, which will explode when opened and cause unbearable fits of laughter for an hour, even if the minutest quantity is sniffed.
Bruce has a large body of staff who are more than willing to help find the trick hamper, but Alfredo wants to minimize the volunteers who will undertake this task, as there is still a ton of preparation left to be done for the launch.
What is the smallest number of staff members who need to open and check the hampers to certainly find out which one contains the laughing gas?​

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Step-by-step explanation:

I think question is partially framed wrong due to fact that they have not given time taken to open a box

But still u can say answer would be around 14 due to fact that

There are 1000 gifts so for one hour lets take box opening to be of 1 minute(ideal) so 1000/60=14 something

But as it is asking minimum so we can say that one /2 persons may be headstaff who can work as 2wice as that of normal person so answer would be around 12/13/14