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Opening doors (Posted on 2002-05-01) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Imagine a row of 100 closed doors. Now, make 100 passes along the row, and at each pass "toggle" the doors whose number is divisible by the number of the pass. (By "toggle", we mean to open a closed door, or close an opened one.)

For example, on the first pass, we will toggle all the doors, on the second, we will toggle only the even-numbered doors, on the third - only doors whose number is divisible by three, and so on.

At the end of the 100 passes, how many doors will be left open?

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  Subject Author Date
SolutionMore Detailed SolutionK Sengupta2008-06-05 03:27:46
answerK Sengupta2007-03-08 12:27:47
solutionDetti2004-10-07 11:10:01
Questionre: The solution...Gamer2003-07-03 14:33:20
SolutionThe solution...Paul Pereira2003-05-07 03:10:55
re: hmmlevik2002-08-27 09:27:37
hmmMel2002-08-27 03:56:54
Opening Doorsbaja2002-05-02 09:58:22
typos in last commenttheBal2002-05-01 18:04:48
basic number theorytheBal2002-05-01 18:02:46
Correction.Dominic2002-05-01 10:54:00
Educated GuessDominic2002-05-01 10:43:07
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