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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Answers
Given : a small vial of laughing gas into exactly one of the thousand hampers,
To Find : smallest number of staff members who need to open and check the hampers to certainly find out which one contains the laughing gas
a)8
b)12
c)10
d)6
Solution:
Smallest number can be 1 as one person can check all the hampers until he found the hamper with laughing gas
But we will look out the given options and
assuming the fact that boxes are divided equally in staff
1000/8 = 125
1000/12 = 250/3 not an integer
1000/10 = 100
1000/6 = 500/3 not an integer
Hence staff members can be 8 or 10
but we need to find smallest number of staff members
Hence 8 will be the correct answer .
smallest number of staff members who need to open and check the hampers to certainly find out which one contains the laughing gas is 8 from the given options.
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