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Brain Teaser / Puzzle
February 27, 2009
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You have ten coins totaling 49¢. By an odd coincidence, so does your friend Henry with whom you are walking. One of you accidentally loses a coin through a hole in a pocket. What is the chance it is a dime?
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If you and your friend each have ten coins totaling 49¢, then they must be four pennies, three dimes, and three nickels. Between you, you have six dimes out of twenty coins. The chance is six out of twenty, or 30 percent.
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