Logical Riddle: Find the Bag With Defective Coins
Use your logical reasoning skills to solve this riddle.
How to find a Bag with defective Coins?
We have 10 bags of 1 Rupee coins. One bag contains all the defective coins, the weight of each coin in that bag is 1 gram lesser than the weight of a normal 1 Rupee coin. You have a spring balance, which tells the exact weight. After how many minimum no. of weighs you can separate the bag with defective coins.
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Answer to the defective coin problem
The minimum no. of weighs required is one.
This is how we arrive at the answer.
Let the weight of a normal 1 Rupee coin is R.
Now number the bags from 1 to 10 and take out the no. of coins equal to bag’s number from each bag, for example from 1st bag, take one coin, from 2nd, take 2 coins and from 5th bag take 5 coins and so on and so forth.
Let D be the number of the bag which contains the defective coins.
Now put all the coins on spring balance and weigh them. Read the spring balance reading, say it is W grams.
Then W = (R grams)*(1+2+3….+10) – D*(1 gram)
D will come out to be a number between 1 to 10 and that\’s the required bag number with the defective coins.