Brain Teasers
A brain teaser is an interesting form of a puzzle that needs thinking to solve. It needs thinking in unconventional ways with given conditions in mind. It may involve lateral thinking. Logic puzzles and riddles are also types of brain teasers. The difficulty of some brain teasers depends on a certain degree of fallacy in human intuitiveness. This is common in brain teasers linking to conditional probability, as the human mind tends to consider absolute probability instead.
Can you solve the egg dropping Puzzle? Asked In Microsoft Interview
Brain teasers are an interesting form of a puzzle that needs thinking to solve. Brain teasers make you think out of the box and exploit all the potential of your mind. One of the most recent brain teasers that have been trending on social media and boggling many minds is ‘What Math Symbols Are Missing Here?’.
Let us first have a look at what this puzzle is.
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In this brain teaser, our aim is to find from which floor she can drop the egg out of the window without breaking it and repelling it before the police can arrive. Let us now look at the answer to this brain teaser – Can you solve the egg dropping Puzzle?
Answer To Can you solve the egg dropping Puzzle? Asked In Microsoft Interview
If you are still trying to get the answer to this, we have a hint for you, there are a few different solutions and all you need to know is basic maths to get the equations right. Let us now see the solutions.
The answer is the 14th floor.
n + (n-1) + (n-2) + (n-3) + (n-4) +… 1 ≥ 100, this equation help us to solve this puzzle.
We can find the first n to pass 100 by adding more terms until we get to our answer which is 14.
So the thief starts on the 14th floor, moving up to the 27th, 39th, and so on for a maximum of 14 drops. As the old saying goes, you can’t pull a heist without breaking a few eggs.
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