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Ice Breaker

Form teams of 2 or 3 and solve the following puzzle:

You have nine coins. Eight of them are real, and one is counterfeit. The counterfeit coin is lighter than the others. Using a balance scale, how can you determine which coin is counterfeit weighing only twice?



Sami Rollins
Department of Computer Science
University of San Francisco
sep@cs.usfca.edu
(415) 422-2024