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Old 07-19-2022, 12:43 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by psyang View Post
Ok, new puzzle. This one is a pretty cool one I remember from my high school math teacher.

You have 100 coins on a table, with 50 heads, 50 tails. You are blindfolded and must divide the coins into two groups of 50 such that each group will have the same number of heads/tails.

The coins are each encased in plastic so you can't tell whether a coin is heads or tails by touch.

How do you do this?
Not sure if GGG already gave this answer as I didn't look at his, but here goes...
Spoiler!
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