{"id":922,"date":"2010-10-27T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T17:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/?page_id=922"},"modified":"2011-01-22T07:37:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T11:37:55","slug":"the-12-coin-problem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/the-12-coin-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"THE 12 COIN PROBLEM \u2013 A Brain Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>IF<\/strong><\/span> one had 12 seemingly identical coins, with 11 being of the exact same weight and 1 being either heavier or lighter than the other 11,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THEN<\/span><\/strong> using only a balance, not a scale, and with only 3 measurements allowed, how could one determine which of these 12 seemingly identical coins is different and whether it is heavier or lighter than the other 11?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\" title=\"Solution to THE 12 COIN PROBLEM \" href=\"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/?page_id=66\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">See if you can solve this problem<br \/>\nBEFORE you click here to view the solution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF one had 12 seemingly identical coins, with 11 being of the exact same weight and 1 being either heavier or lighter than the other 11, THEN using only a balance, not a scale, and with only 3 measurements allowed, how could one determine which of these 12 seemingly identical coins is different and whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/922\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncansonelectric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}