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    Former Employee of Satan Napalm's Avatar
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    Riddle me this...

    Someone asked me this yesterday, and its been driving me nuts.

    You have 79 identical coins. 1 is heavier than the others, but exactly the same in all other respects. You have a balance scale that you can use 4 times to produce the heavy coin. You cant add any coins. What do you do?
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    Senior Member Hellsbellboy's Avatar
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    u grab the scale and smash it into the head of whoever told u that riddle.

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    One day older, one day wiser rafiki55's Avatar
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    http://home.att.net/~numericana/answ...g.htm#weighing

    probably something like the method above, but more steps as you have 79 marbles and 4 tries.

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    Thanks. God bless the internet.
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