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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?

See The Solution Submitted by Jonathan Waltz

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| Comment 12 of 17 |

(In reply to Sum by not_so_einstein)

You forgot to divide your 27 by 2 !!
Otherwise you'd get 13 as TomM did.

Posted by Adam on 2003-05-04 22:12:27

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