Other pages: Welcome! Home Contents Get your brain teaser solved! View my blog on particle physics here HOW MANY COINS IN EACH GLASS? - ANSWER Age group: All Hello Readers! Here is the answer to the question I had asked earlier! You can also view the question here: Coins in glasses puzzle The question I asked was: "How can you place 10 coins in 3 glasses such that each glass has an odd number of coins?" Note: You cannot leave any glass empty Now coming to the Answer! First of all, let us get one thing clear, odd number + odd number = even number even number + odd number = odd number i.e. odd number + odd number + odd number = odd number From this, we can conclude two things - 1) Sum of 3 odd numbers can never give an even number; thus, logically, dividing 10 into 3 parts such that each is an odd number is not possible. 2) However, we can get an even number if we place an odd number of coins in two glasses ; however, we were told that no gl...
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