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- From: jes@downey.dev.macsch.com (John Schiermeier)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Great turtle race
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.182241.3270@draco.macsch.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:22:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.192101.13105@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov12.192101.13105@hellgate.utah.edu> tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) writes:
- >It was the day for the great turtle races, and Alfred, Bob, Carl, Dave,
- >Ed and Frank shuffled up to the starting line. There would be two
- >races, and all of them were very excited (as excited as turtles can be!)
- >They would average each turtles place to find their overall rank..
- >
- >In the first race:
- > Alfred came in before Bob or Carl did
- > Dave came in two places before Frank
- > Three turtles ran times in between Carl and Ed
- >
- >In the second race:
- > Alfred came in before Bob or Carl did, and ran better this race than before
- > Dave came in two places before Frank
- > Three turtles ran times in between Carl and Ed
- >
- >Quite peculiar! Yet no turtle placed the same in both races. Happily,
- >after they computed their overall rank for the day every turtle got
- >a medal.. gold, silver or bronze for 1,2 or 3rd.
- >
- > What were the placings for each turtle in both races? Who got the gold?
-
- Hope this ctrl-L thing works here:
-
- The first race: E A B D C F
- The second race: A C D B F E
-
- The medals: gold, A; silver, B C D E; bronze, F.
-
- There were two other possible outcomes (E D A F C B and D E F A C B),
- but there seemed to be only one combination of two within the four
- that led to each turtle finishing differently and only three overall
- scores.
-
- John
-