April 26th, 2017
Today's Question - You have a piece of wood 13 inches long. If you marked it at 4 points: 1 inch, 2 inch, 6 inch and 10 inch, you could measure any number of whole inches from 1 to 13. If the piece of wood is 36 inches Cashin’s Comments long, what is the smallest number of marks needed to measure any whole inch from 1 to 36 (and where do you put the marks)? April 26, 2017 Page 3 of 3 COMMENTS RESUME ON TUESDAY. WONDER WOMAN ON AN EXTENDED MISSION
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Answer - to arrange the $1000 in 10 bags so that he could select any number from 1 to 1000 without opening a bag, the series should be: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 489. If those numbers look familiar, they are the denominators of the fractions previously used in various parts of Wall Street (except 489 of course).Doesn't match Missing info Like question