Sunday, January 30, 2005

CaN YoU SolvE ThiS PuzzlE?

I had a class on Team Building today.Just a regular class which was going ok, but suddenly turned interesting towards the end.Sir was talking about teams solving problems n gave us a problem to solve.For 20 minutes all of us were whacking our brains trying to solve the problem. He even told us what the answer could b, told us to try different combinations, think out of the box...lol.Well I finally got it, and Sir was so happy n relieved that someone finally managed to figure it out.. :)

Anyways here's the puzzle.. try it out. Lets see how long u tk to solve it ;) It's not tough, wont take time at all if u get on the right track! :)

A,B,C,D have to cross a dark tunnel.

A takes 10 min to cross.B takes 2 min,C takes 5 min and D takes 1 min to cross.

2 conditions : They hv only one tiny lamp and ony one team member can accompany the person carrying the lamp. Which means that at a time more than 2 people cannot cross the tunnel.Also remember that one person has to come back with the torch for the others to cross.

What is the minimum time taken for the team to cross the tunnel?


Should I give the answer?Nah.. lemme wait n watch :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think D will accompany all people front and back so its

10 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 2 = 19 minutes