If I throw 1000 10-centimeter-long needles on to a tiled floor, where each tile is a 10 cm x 30 cm rectangle, approximately how many needles will end up lying across a crack?
You may assume that the widths of both the needles and the cracks are negligible.
Approximately 743 needles will end up lying across a crack.
Edited on April 14, 2008, 4:32 pm