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02-03-2008, 10:41 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | How would you solve this? (Fast reply needed)
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Hi everybody.
I've been asked to solve this puzzle as an assignment in my post-university program and I can't think of a solution: 
I want to create a necklace from this chain, which is divided in four parts with three links each. Opening a link costs $25 and closing it costs another $25, but I only have $150. How can I create the necklace without spending extra money?
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02-03-2008, 10:46 PM
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02-03-2008, 10:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Calgary, Alberta | | | Weld?.. but I wish I actually new.
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02-03-2008, 10:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | | leave two links open so you can put on or remove the necklace is my guess so you open and close two links for $100 and you open two links for $50. my solution only uses the $150 but it leaves a section of links not permanently attached.
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02-03-2008, 10:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Open one link, put two different links from different sections into it. Then open both links on the end of the last section and put one on each end of two different sections. $150 spent and you have a necklace with three sections comprising the circle and one section hanging down.
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02-03-2008, 11:00 PM
| | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5 my solution only uses the $150 but it leaves a section of links not permanently attached. | That's what I thought, but I don't think it's the answer. |
02-03-2008, 11:02 PM
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you'll have two links hanging down from the necklace... |
02-03-2008, 11:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I can do it for $100, but whoever is wearing it must have a neck that will fit inside 6 links.
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02-03-2008, 11:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | spend $150 on a class to learn how to weld and cut metal 
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02-03-2008, 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by arbitrary I can do it for $100, but whoever is wearing it must have a neck that will fit inside 6 links. | I can do it for $50, but you need to be able to fit your neck into three links.
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02-03-2008, 11:13 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | We do not know the length of each segment, and we do not know that all four segments must be used. Perhaps a "necklace" can consist of three of those segments. |
02-03-2008, 11:15 PM
| | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bongomania and we do not know that all four segments must be used. | That's what I've been thinking all the time, but I'm afraid I must assume that all links must be used. |
02-03-2008, 11:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cambridge, MA | | | Take one set of 3-links. Open the center link and...
a. Detach the two end links from it. ($25)
b. Then insert any end links from two separate set of 3-links and close it. ($25) Giving a set of 7-links.
You should now have a set of 7 links, a set of 3 links and 2 single sinks. You should be able to figure out the rest for yourself.
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02-03-2008, 11:26 PM
| | Not Actually Knighted... Yet! | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | | Take one set of three links and set it aside the other three are sets 1, 2, and 3. Break each of the links in the set aside set, then take one of them and link together sets 1 & 2, take another to link 2 & 3, take another to connect 3 & 1.
BAM
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(BTW that was 3 breaks and 3 connects for a total of 6, 6 times $25 = $150)
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02-03-2008, 11:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Edward V Take one set of three links and set it aside the other three are sets 1, 2, and 3. Break each of the links in the set aside set, then take one of them and link together sets 1 & 2, take another to link 2 & 3, take another to connect 3 & 1.
BAM
hehe
(BTW that was 3 breaks and 3 connects for a total of 6, 6 times $25 = $150) | awesome!! |
02-03-2008, 11:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Indiana | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JansenW Take one set of 3-links. Open the center link and...
a. Detach the two end links from it. ($25)
b. Then insert any end links from two separate set of 3-links and close it. ($25) Giving a set of 7-links.
You should now have a set of 7 links, a set of 3 links and 2 single sinks. You should be able to figure out the rest for yourself. | This is the correct method. I was presented this puzzle once and it took me a good 45 minutes to figure out. Just PM if you need help after these steps. |
02-03-2008, 11:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cambridge, MA | | | My solution is the same as Sir Edward's. He opened all the links at the same time. I just dealt with opening and closing one link at a time.
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02-03-2008, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by JansenW My solution is the same as Sir Edward's. He opened all the links at the same time. I just dealt with opening and closing one link at a time. | That it is.
It's always a bad thing to reply before reading the rest of the thread.  |
02-03-2008, 11:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Cerb That it is.
It's always a bad thing to reply before reading the rest of the thread. | I read the first post and figured it out, then read the thread hoping no one else answered it so I could have all the glory... Then I saw his answer and decided to post what I came up with anyways 
And yeah, it is the same, just explained differently.
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02-03-2008, 11:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cambridge, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Edward V I read the first post and figured it out, then read the thread hoping no one else answered it so I could have all the glory... Then I saw his answer and decided to post what I came up with anyways
And yeah, it is the same, just explained differently. | Your explanation was better.
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