document.write( "Question 1017215: If you have four boxes, all identical looking, but all with different weights, can you order them from the lightest to the heaviest using balancing scales no more than 5 times? Yes or No. \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "Select two boxes, label the lighter box A and the heavier box B.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Weighing #2:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Weigh the remaining two boxes, label the lighter box C and the \r\n" );
document.write( "heavier box D.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Weighing #3:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Weigh the two lighter boxes, A and C.  The lighter of these is \r\n" );
document.write( "the lightest of all 4 boxes.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "Weighing #4:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Weigh the two heavier boxes, B and D.  The heavier of these is \r\n" );
document.write( "the heaviest of all 4 boxes.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "That means the other two are the middle-weights \r\n" );
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document.write( "Weighing #5:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Weigh those two middle-weights.  The lighter of these two is\r\n" );
document.write( "the next to the lightest.  The heavier of these two is the\r\n" );
document.write( "next to heaviest.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now you have them in order from lightest to heaviest.\r\n" );
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