
#60 Say what you see
Set by Peter Rowlett
You have three cards labelled A, B and C. You shuffle them and deal them face down onto a table, saying 鈥淎, B, C鈥� as you place each card. What is the probability that you say the name of at least one card as you deal it?
What if you add a fourth card, labelling this D, and say 鈥淎, B, C, D鈥�?
With six cards you think of two ways to label them. You can have A, B, C, D, E, F and say in order 鈥淎, B, C, D, E, F鈥�, or have two As, two Bs and two Cs and say 鈥淎, B, C, A, B, C鈥�. Which is more likely to see you name at least one card as you deal it from a shuffled deck?
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#59 Seven segments
Solution
From 04:59 to 05:00, the room will get slightly brighter: there is a change of two segments, going from 21 to 23 lit.
The brightest time is 08:08, which sees 26 segments lit, while the dimmest is 11:11, which uses just eight.
The largest change in brightness is an increase of five segments lit, which occurs between 07:59 and 08:00, going from 20 to 25.
Quick quiz #289
set by Corryn Wetzel
1 Name the key structural protein that helps form hair, skin and nails.
2 In which year did Luna 2 become the first human-made object to reach the surface of the moon?
3 What is the longest nerve in the human body?
4 Which mammal has the densest fur?
5 Who coined the term "cell" after viewing a piece of cork under a microscope?
Quick quiz #289
Answers
1 Keratin
2 1959
3The sciatic nerve
4 Sea otter (Enhydra lutris)
5 Robert Hooke