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Fraud. That's their answer to everything.
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I like when they have puzzles in the interviews. My current job only asked me about work history and skills BORIIIING
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Jul 17, 2015 20:22
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Moridin920 posted:this is all a hypothetical exercise anyway since we all know goldman sachs hires based on your ability to gently caress over thousands of people for a quarter point stock bump and also your ability to have been born with the right connections Naw. It's a good way to find a person who'll believe whatever you tell them because they want to impress you. You use that tactic, you always end up finding "the heaviest ball" even if they're all the same. Good recruitment tactic for finding a clever patsy/fall guy.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:23
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iit make impossible to solve yet plausible sounding logic tests
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Jul 17, 2015 20:26
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Split the balls into two sets of 4. Whichever is heaviest contains the large ball. Then split the four with the heaviest ball into two groups of two. Find the group with the heaviest again. Split that into two, and bam, you have the heaviest ball. They asked us something similar when I was at a place. Dumbass questions ITT
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Jul 17, 2015 20:26
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psyopmonkey2 posted:Split the balls into two sets of 4. and that's why you were in the military
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Jul 17, 2015 20:27
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Clearly you should just roll the balls down a ramp and see which one accelerates the fastest.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K2WE9z4zL4
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Jul 17, 2015 20:28
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Professor Shark posted:iit make impossible to solve yet plausible sounding logic tests it's like when you ran into an engineering problem that didn't have enough linearly independent equations to solve for the missing variables.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:28
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I am the heavy ball
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Jul 17, 2015 20:28
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Yell at the lowest paid person in the office to do it
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Jul 17, 2015 20:28
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psyopmonkey2 posted:Split the balls into two sets of 4. i saw it before the edit. you said ft. bragg, not "a place" loving militard
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Jul 17, 2015 20:29
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ArbitraryC posted:it's like when you ran into an engineering problem that didn't have enough linearly independent equations to solve for the missing variables. fuckin math profs thinking they're all clever and poo poo wasting my time 
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Jul 17, 2015 20:29
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GBS used to be smart enough for threads with puzzles like this but I dunno if we're at that level any more. Here's my entry, you can work for me if you answer this. (.....NOT!!) You are sharing a pepperoni pizza with your fellow goon. It has a lot of pepperonis on it, but cleverly, you notice that some of the slices have more pepperoni than others. Obviously you want to try to maximize your pepperoni count, that's some basic goon instinct there. The way you go about choosing slices is, you go first, and take any slice you want. Then, the other guy takes one of the two slices adjacent to the first one. This continues to alternate, so each of you has two choices for each slice. Is there a way you can guarantee that you get more delicious pepperonis than the other goon?
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Jul 17, 2015 20:30
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ArbitraryC posted:Clearly you should just roll the balls down a ramp and see which one accelerates the fastest. Noooo, the answer is to drop them off a large building and see which hits the ground first.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:30
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Yes... Your rage pleases me.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:31
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Pawn 17 posted:Noooo, the answer is to drop them off a large building and see which hits the ground first. in before someone with shallow knowledge of physics tries to say they'd fall at the same speed because they forgot the "in a vacuum" caveat.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:31
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watch out weve got some geniuses who paid attention in high school physics itt
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Jul 17, 2015 20:32
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ArbitraryC posted:in before someone with shallow knowledge of physics tries to say they'd fall at the same speed because they forgot the "in a vacuum" caveat. if all the balls are the same size and shape though wouldn't it not matter? air resistance would be the same for all of them if they aren't the same size and shape then you could just visually ID the heavy one
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Jul 17, 2015 20:33
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Moridin920 posted:if all the balls are the same size and shape though wouldn't it not matter? air resistance would be the same for all of them If they are the same shape and size and one is heavier (re more dense) then it will better overcome an equal amount of air resistance and accelerate faster. It should also have a higher terminal velocity. I think rolling them down a ramp would be easier to observe than dropping them tho.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:35
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:GBS used to be smart enough for threads with puzzles like this but I dunno if we're at that level any more. Does it matter how many slices there are
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Jul 17, 2015 20:35
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Moridin920 posted:if all the balls are the same size and shape though wouldn't it not matter? air resistance would be the same for all of them Gravity is proportional to an object's mass, so all objects will accelerate at the same rate under gravity in a vacuum. Air resistance is a force that is proportional to velocity, but not to mass. The heavier an object is, the smaller effect that same amount of force will have, so heavy things will fall faster because the same air resistance will have less of an effect. trap sprung or something
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Jul 17, 2015 20:36
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No one said anything about incline planes. The instructions were 8 balls and a scale.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:36
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Wait guys, actually I have a better idea. You can just heat all the balls in a fire for 10 minutes.Then you touch each one. The heavier ball will be slightly cooler.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:36
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Beef Turret posted:Does it matter how many slices there are There are 8 slices in a standard pizza, I should have stated that, but I'm not gonna tell you if it matters or not.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:37
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If you can juggle you could probably get a feel for which ball was not like the others by doing so.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:37
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Actual interview question: How can three men have mutually safe heterosexual sex with one woman using only two condoms?
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Jul 17, 2015 20:37
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:There are 8 slices in a standard pizza, I should have stated that, but I'm not gonna tell you if it matters or not. what if it's one of those places that cuts their pizzas into square slices
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Jul 17, 2015 20:38
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ArbitraryC posted:what if it's one of those places that cuts their pizzas into square slices I don't know I would never eat one of those!! That would change the problem a lot actually because now you have four adjacent pieces to any piece and taking a piece could enable one to choose between 0 and 3 other slices, inclusive. I'm not prepared to answer such a question.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:39
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Here's a fun one I heard on the radio recently: You have 100 coins weighing 10 grams each, in 10 stacks. One stack is fake coins, and they all weigh 11 or 9 grams. You have an accurate scale. How do you find the fake coins with only one measurement?
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Jul 17, 2015 20:41
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Gravity is proportional to an object's mass, so all objects will accelerate at the same rate under gravity in a vacuum. oh that makes sense. been a while since high school physics and they never really go into the air resistance formulas (or friction for that matter). Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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Jul 17, 2015 20:42
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notZaar posted:Here's a fun one I heard on the radio recently: I'm guessing the solution is something like you use 1 coin from stack 1, 2 from stack 2, and so on, and then based on how far off you are from that target total you know which stack was fake, ie if you're 5 grams off the stack you used 5 coins from is fake.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:43
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put all the balls at the edge of a cliff. push all the balls off until you have only one left. that is now the heaviest ball
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Jul 17, 2015 20:46
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surely just only weigh two balls at once until you find the one which is heavier?
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Jul 17, 2015 20:48
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Moridin920 posted:oh that makes sense basically just imagine force vectors, F=ma and all. a here is constant (gravity) so the larger the m the more downward force you're applying. The resistive force is going to be the same for an object of the same/shape size traveling the same velocity regardless of mass, so when you balance your force vectors the heavier ball (assuming same size and shape) will have more net force downwards, resulting in greater acceleration.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:48
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ArbitraryC posted:I'm guessing the solution is something like you use 1 coin from stack 1, 2 from stack 2, and so on, and then based on how far off you are from that target total you know which stack was fake, ie if you're 5 grams off the stack you used 5 coins from is fake. Yeah pretty much. You can stop at the ninth stack.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:48
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notZaar posted:Yeah pretty much. You can stop at the ninth stack. You should state that you only have 90 coins in 10 stacks of 9, though maybe that gives it away more?
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Jul 17, 2015 20:50
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gravity is loving weird when you think about it easily the 'weakest' force but also the only one able to work at such long distances
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Jul 17, 2015 20:50
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:You should state that you only have 90 coins in 10 stacks of 9, though maybe that gives it away more? That's the trick to most these riddles, when you look at what you're given it becomes clear what you're supposed to do. If the solution didn't involve using varying amounts of coins why wouldn't they just say you had 10 coins and 1 is fake.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:You should state that you only have 90 coins in 10 stacks of 9, though maybe that gives it away more? This is from car talk, it can't be too hard or it would have overtaxed the feeble brains of their core demo.
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