What we need is a team effort to work this out and plently of dialog... so the answer can be found by 'brain power'
Could anyone who does stumble accross the answer please hold off for a while...at least until the regulars have suffered sufficiently enough to start begging for mercy...
Here you go !!
You are given 5 bags. There are 10 beads in each of the bags. In four of the bags, the beads each weigh 10 kilograms. In the remaining bag, each bead weighs only 9 kilograms. All the bags and beads look identical. You must find out which bag has the lighter beads. The problem is that all the bags look identical and all the beads look identical. You can use a scale, but it has to be a single-tray scale, not a two-tray balance scale. Also, you may use the scale only once. How can you find out which bag has the lighter beads?
Edited - [This message has been edited by Rocky (edited 08-14-2003 @ 03:54 AM).]
The scales only go up to 17.5 kilo's max.
Edited - There is no weight limit on the scales.
Note - 'you may use the scale only once' - meaning you may only take ugly beauty, parrott mangler & all round good egg ---- Have leather pants will travel