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ryan. · 10-27-2004, 01:24 PM

You are in a room in a building. There are only two rooms in the building, and there are no windows in either room. The room you are in has three switches, which operate three light bulbs in the other room.You need to deduce which switch operates which light bulb. You may only enter the other room once. How is this possible?

[Alright, this gets confusing, but here we go. Turn two switches on, leave them on for a while, then switch one off. Enter the room with the lights, there will be one light on, so that is obviously the switch you left on. Feel the other two light bulbs, and the one that feels slightly warmer than the other is operated by the switch you turned on and off.]

Wow, I rule. That is, if I'm right.

A mountain goat attempts to scale a cliff sixty feet high. Every minute, the goat bounds upward three feet but slips back two.
How long does it take for the goat to reach the top?
[A similar one was done before. Every minute it goes up one foot in total, so at 57 minutes, it will be three feet from the top. If it takes it one minute to climb three feet, I guess the answer is 58.]

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ryan. Member of the Banned PERMA BANNED Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Hellhole, United Kingdom Assholeness: 100% Age: 23 Posts: 361 Points: 198.00 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 198.00 Donate	You are in a room in a building. There are only two rooms in the building, and there are no windows in either room. The room you are in has three switches, which operate three light bulbs in the other room.You need to deduce which switch operates which light bulb. You may only enter the other room once. How is this possible? [Alright, this gets confusing, but here we go. Turn two switches on, leave them on for a while, then switch one off. Enter the room with the lights, there will be one light on, so that is obviously the switch you left on. Feel the other two light bulbs, and the one that feels slightly warmer than the other is operated by the switch you turned on and off.] Wow, I rule. That is, if I'm right. A mountain goat attempts to scale a cliff sixty feet high. Every minute, the goat bounds upward three feet but slips back two. How long does it take for the goat to reach the top? [A similar one was done before. Every minute it goes up one foot in total, so at 57 minutes, it will be three feet from the top. If it takes it one minute to climb three feet, I guess the answer is 58.]