Solution:

answer is: 14

Let x be the answer we want, the number of drops required.

So if the first egg breaks maximum we can have x-1 drops and so we must always put the first egg from height x. So we have determined that for a given x we must drop the first ball from x height. And now if the first drop of the first egg doesn’t breaks we can have x-2 drops for the second egg if the first egg breaks in the second drop.

Taking an example, lets say 16 is my answer. That I need 16 drops to find out the answer. Lets see whether we can find out the height in 16 drops. First we drop from height 16,and if it breaks we try all floors from 1 to 15.If the egg don’t break then we have left 15 drops, so we will drop it from 16+15+1 =32nd floor. The reason being if it breaks at 32nd floor we can try all the floors from 17 to 31 in 14 drops (total of 16 drops). Now if it did not break then we have left 13 drops. and we can figure out whether we can find out whether we can figure out the floor in 16 drops.

Lets take the case with 16 as the answer

1 + 15 16 if breaks at 16 checks from 1 to 15 in 15 drops
1 + 14 31 if breaks at 31 checks from 17 to 30 in 14 drops
1 + 13 45 .....
1 + 12 58
1 + 11 70
1 + 10 81
1 + 9 91
1 + 8 100 We can easily do in the end as we have enough drops to accomplish the task


Now finding out the optimal one we can see that we could have done it in either 15 or 14 drops only but how can we find the optimal one. From the above table we can see that the optimal one will be needing 0 linear trials in the last step.

So we could write it as

(1+p) + (1+(p-1))+ (1+(p-2)) + .........+ (1+0) >= 100.

Let 1+p=q which is the answer we are looking for

q (q+1)/2 >=100

Solving for 100 you get q=14.
So the answer is: 14
Drop first orb from floors 14, 27, 39, 50, 60, 69, 77, 84, 90, 95, 99, 100... (i.e. move up 14 then 13, then 12 floors, etc) until it breaks (or doesn't at 100)

Solution:

12 steps:

Steps 11 Liter jug 6 Liter Jug
1. 11 -
2. 5 6
3. 5 0
4. 0 5
5. 11 5
6. 10 6
7. 10 0
8. 4 6
9. 4 0
10. 0 4
11. 11 4
12. 9 6 ==> i found 9 liter in 11liter jug(as required)

Solution:

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Solution:

2100 miles.

Each vowel equivalent to 500 and each consonant equivalent to -200

Solution:

If you notice the animated gif, you know that D, C and B are going to die. D dies directly after coming in contact with the object, C dies after being thrust by the spikes of the see-saw and B dies with the blue ball.

But consider the situation that the person at E stands for Ebola. Eventually A dies as well.

We thank 9gags for this awesome gif.

Solution:

The person on 73rd number will survive.

Explanation:
Till the number is the power of 2, the last person to survive will be the one who started it. But since the number here is not the power of 2, we will take the greatest power of 2 that is less than the number which is 64.
100 - 64 = 36
36 people are killed as 2, 4, 6, ..., 72. Thus the sword will now be given to the 73rd person. Now he is the first person to start in the remaining 64 people. Thus he will be the one to survive.

Solution:

There is no mention if you can use sign or not and thus the only possible way to get this is as follows:

(15 - 9) + (13 - 7) + (7 - 1) + (9 - 1) + (13 - 9)

If you solve inside the brackets, you will get the following equation
6 + 6 + 6 + 8 + 4
Adding all these numbers, you will get 30 which is the required sum.

Solution:

11.3135 + 9.3115+ 9.375

Solution:

I have three theories based on which it can be either Murder, Suicide, or Accident.

Case1 : Its a Murder
Reason1: If it's suicide then a person must have waited for the Cigarette to end.
Reason2: Blood is spattered on the right side and the pistol is also on the right side. which seems pistol is planted at the end.

Case2 : Its a Suicide
Reason1. The lamp was switched off and glasses were removed which indicates she done writing(probably suicide note). The murderer does not care about switching off glasses or removing glasses.
Reason2: The blood was just on the wall at the height of a person. If it's a murder the blood must have been scattering around.
Reason3: Burning cigarette and alcohol indicated depression level which often is the reason for suicide.

Case3 : Its a Accident
It's must be an accident. The girl was writing using the pen and suddenly she heard a sound. She must have a gun for safety which she takes out of the security. As a preventive measure, she switched off the light so that she can't be seen in the dark. Also removed the glasses as they are of no use in the dark. After a while, she realized that it's just a sound. So to calm her down she drinks and also lights a cigarette. suddenly she slipped and try to hold stool but failed and forced her head into the wall and died.

Solution:

The five cards must contain at least one card of the same suit.
Let's assume Rhodes placed one of the two cards of the same suit at the end and the second card was given to Daniel.
In that case, Daniel will know the suit of the card.

Now the real question is how Rhodes made sure that Daniel also knows the number of the card.

Daniel got four cards and one of them will determine the suit, so we are left with 3 cards.
3 cards can be arranged in 3! ways i.e. 6 ways but our card numbers can vary from 1 to 13.
Since we have two cards of the same suit we will make sure that we don't pick the King (13). This leaves us with 12 numbers.

We can also distinguish card from upside down position, therefore, we now have 6 * 2 ways to arrange these card.
"TADA.... We cracked the magic trick".

Let us assume that the smallest card is C1U (upwards position) and C1D (downwards position). Similarly, we have C2U, C2D, C3U and C3D

According to that, the 12 possible arrangements are:
C1U C2U C3U => NUMBER 1
C1U C3U C2U => NUMBER 2
C2U C1U C3U => NUMBER 3
C2U C3U C1U => NUMBER 4
C3U C1U C2U => NUMBER 5
C3U C2U C1U => NUMBER 6
C1D C2D C3D => NDMBER 7
C1D C3D C2D => NDMBER 8
C2D C1D C3D => NDMBER 9
C2D C3D C1D => NDMBER 10
C3D C1D C2D => NDMBER 11
C3D C2D C1D => NDMBER 12

Please note that king (number 13) is not possible as discussed already.