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100 marbles (Posted on 2003-04-29)

You have one hundred marbles, and an infinite supply of trash bags. If you were to put the marbles in the bags, so that no two bags had the same amount of marbles, what is the most bags that you could use?

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(In reply to Sum by not_so_einstein)

oopsie.....I noticed i did something wrong. The answer is 14 bags.

Posted by not_so_einstein on 2003-04-30 00:24:37

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