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Praveen_khm Posted 20 years ago
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Cut the gold bar twice and pay for 7 days.....

Hi all,

Try answering this one which I found in one of the other sites.......

You employ someone to work for you for seven days. To pay your employee, you have one bar of gold which is has seven segments. Your employee needs to be paid for their days work at the end of each day.

You may only cut the gold bar twice. How do you pay your employee?

Pravi......
  

Top answer

I’ve got an idea…let’s see if I can work it out. Day one: cut off a segment and pay them. They now have one segment.

— Nona the brit

  • I’ve got an idea…let’s see if I can work it out.
  • Day one: cut off a segment and pay them.
  • They now have one segment.
  • Day two: cut off a piece 2 segments big and give them that and ask for the first days gold back – they now have two segments Day three: Give them the single segment again.
  • They now have three segments Day four: give them the remaining piece with 4 segments and ask for all the other bits back.
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I’ve got an idea…let’s see if I can work it out.



Day one: cut off a segment and pay them. They now have one segment.

Day two: cut off a piece 2 segments big and give them that and ask for the first days gold back – they now have two segments

Day three: Give them the single segment again. They now have three segments

Day four: give them the remaining pi
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Cool....

you got it ...but am disappointed that you solved it so soon...... Emotion: smile

-Pravi.....
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It is quite simple. It is a math riddle. The employer cuts the bar of gold at the one segment mark. Then he cuts it again at the two segment mark. Which means he has a piece of one segment, two segments, and four segments. At the end of the first day the employer give one segment to the employee. At then end of the second day he gives the two segment piece in exchange for the one segment piec
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Hi Anon,

You'll see that Nona solved the puzzle back in 2006.
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five people are tied to five pillars of 2 colors ( 3 are red and 2 are yellow ) . the last 2 guys are blind. only one guy will know his pillar's color. which one will , what color and why ?
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hmmmmmmmmmmm good ans............
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Make two cuts on the gold bar such that you have the following sizes of bars.

1/7, 2/7 and 4/7. For convenience sake, I would just refer to the bars as 1, 2 and 4.

At the end of Day 1: Give Bar 1 (You- 2 and 4, Worker- 1)

At the end of Day 2: Give Bar 2, Take back Bar 1 (You- 1 and 4, Worker- 2)

At the end of Day 3: Give Bar 1 (You- 4, Worker- 1 and 2)
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I was so impressed with this answer but then I realised it wouldn't work. If the employee 'needed' to be paid everyday then I guess he had bills to pay and a family to feed so then the first cut off piece that he was given would have been spent!

Nice answer though!
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First cut 1/7 of the bar.
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