Homework Help: MATH

Posted by Jill on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 9:42pm.

There are 10 similar coins, but 2 of them are fake. The fake ones are lighter than the real ones, but both have the same weight. You are give a balance scale, and you should determine which coins are fake. At least how many weighings do you need to find the fake coins?

MATH - Karen, Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 12:03am
Hmm. I think you'd need 3. Say you got the two fake ones in a row. You can't really go off of that since you have nothing to compare it to. So, you'd have to weigh a third to see if they were the real coins or the fake ones. Make sense?
MATH - timtyy, Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 7:49pm
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