Daily Quiz 20 - Win 1000 cc cash + Food

Day 1,812, 09:15 • Published in India India • by Wild Quark
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DQ 19 Answer

1. No, its not possible.
2. And the 2nd part "how" (which should have been a why in this case 😛) is-

Imagine a chess board of 6 by 6 size. If you remove any two diagonally opposite corners, you end up removing two squares of the same color. Now the remaining grid of 34 pieces has 18 pieces of 1 color and 16 of another. If you try to divide this into 17 1*2 pieces you require 17 white and 17 blacks, which is not possible.

I have got 13 responses till now. 2 of them wrong , 9 which got the first part right and only 2 which got all correct. But I am overwhelmed by the enthusiasm as each and every one of them tried to put some effort (mostly painstaking with examples!) to prove or disprove the hypotheses.

WINNERS

2 (both correct): 125 INR each

Kronos777
thedoctor46

9 (1st part correct): 100 INR each

aks1010
anna hazare
gkonduru67
Pramit
Dinesh Raju
Nagaraj Suraj
axedge
gkonduru67
deadlydisaster

Participation award:

Rohan anantha krishna
Oliver mellors * (I am convinced now that he is a Computer science or maths scholar - no kidding. He just got the question wrong)

- rhitik
(Thank you rhitik for your question)

* = returns the prize back to coffers. Thank you!
DQ 20: By olivermellors: PM olivermellors your answer

Chess is played on a board with 64 squares. The inventor was offered a reward for having invented the game: “name your price”. He asked for either:

a. One kernel of rice for the first square, and double the previous amount for each subsequent square.

b. A nice piece of land to grow rice on for the rest of his life. (he is expected to live 25 more years)

Which is the richest reward? Explain.
Send in your answers to olivermellors and win cash prize + food.

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Wild Quark [Nikki]
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