A Fistful of Dollars

Probability Level 1

A boy with 10 pockets wants to distribute 44 $1 coins such that no two pockets have the same number of coins in them. Can he do it?

Notes:

All the pockets are initially empty.

The number of coins in any pocket can't be negative.

Trivia:

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) - Clint Eastwood

Boo! Maybe Yes No

Aronas Nuresi by Aronas Nuresi , 46, India

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1 solution

Aronas Nuresi
Jun 9, 2014

44 < ∑ n = 0 9 n 44 < \displaystyle \sum_{n=0}^{9} n

∴ \therefore No

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Agreed Aronas

Apoorv Padghan - 6 years, 10 months ago

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