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There are 10 boxes of apples. Each apple in the boxes weights 1 pound, except that one of the boxes contains bad apples, which weights 0.9 pound each. You are given a digital weight (not a scale), and you can take apples out of the boxes. what is the minimum time of weighs to find out which box has bad apples? I gave one solution of 3 times using divide and conquer, but the interviewer said that 1 step is possible. So I couldn`t come up with the solution.
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Financial Software Developer

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Jan 13, 2012

There are 10 boxes of apples. Each apple in the boxes weights 1 pound, except that one of the boxes contains bad apples, which weights 0.9 pound each. You are given a digital weight (not a scale), and you can take apples out of the boxes. what is the minimum time of weighs to find out which box has bad apples? I gave one solution of 3 times using divide and conquer, but the interviewer said that 1 step is possible. So I couldn`t come up with the solution.

Given an array with building sizes, find the building to be knocked over from the left (assuming you are Godzilla) so as to knock over maximum number of buildings. The buildings once knocked over, can reach as far as their height. So, if the array is (2, 4, 0, 0, 0, 1) , We would have to knock over 2, which will knock over 4, 2 and 1. Also notice in (2, 6, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1) the 6 would reach over the 4 and knock over the 1. (Something that I confirmed with the interviewer)
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Financial Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

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Oct 8, 2011

Given an array with building sizes, find the building to be knocked over from the left (assuming you are Godzilla) so as to knock over maximum number of buildings. The buildings once knocked over, can reach as far as their height. So, if the array is (2, 4, 0, 0, 0, 1) , We would have to knock over 2, which will knock over 4, 2 and 1. Also notice in (2, 6, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1) the 6 would reach over the 4 and knock over the 1. (Something that I confirmed with the interviewer)

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