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Penny Problem (Posted on 2003-10-14) Difficulty: 3 of 5
You are blindfolded before a table. On the table are a very large number of pennies. You are told 128 of the pennies are heads up and the rest are tails up.

How can you create two subgroups of pennies, each with the same number of heads facing up?

  Submitted by Ravi Raja    
Rating: 3.7500 (16 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
Create a subgroup of any 128 pennies. Then flip over all 128. That group of 128 and the group of all the remaining pennies will have the same number of heads facing up.

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  Subject Author Date
Puzzle ThoughtsK Sengupta2024-07-10 08:34:45
A visual solution (short)Gamer2008-06-15 21:31:20
PraiseTristan2005-06-27 20:21:34
Pretty solutionR.Kesavan2004-11-25 12:21:42
just take off the blindfoldyo2004-03-24 16:10:00
another solutiontom2003-12-21 12:15:36
I give!r2003-11-20 11:15:02
everyone missing somethinggary2003-11-14 18:50:46
Duh!!!Tabitha2003-10-23 14:43:50
SolutionGot it...PWP2003-10-17 12:49:35
Heads I win, tails you lose.Dan2003-10-15 04:07:22
re: Clarification:DJ2003-10-14 18:03:14
Clarification:Gamer2003-10-14 17:01:04
re(4): solutionSilverKnight2003-10-14 14:22:51
re(3): solutionCharlie2003-10-14 14:13:59
re(2): solutionSilverKnight2003-10-14 12:52:29
re: solutionDJ2003-10-14 12:44:24
SolutionsolutionSilverKnight2003-10-14 10:49:41
a start?FatBoy2003-10-14 10:00:05
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