You've got someone working for you for seven days and a gold
bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven
connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the
end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks
in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?
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Answer Posted / vikas
Break it into
1 bar piece
2 bar piece
4 bar piece
with 2 breaks as stated.
Day bars with worker | paid on day | bars with me |
Count remaming
1, 2, 4
7
1 1 1 2, 4
6
2 2 2 1, 4
5
3 1,2 1 4
4
4 4 4 1,2
3
5 4,1 1 2
2
6 4,2 2 1
1
7 4,2,1 1 none
none
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