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  2. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Wikipedia

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    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. is a 1974 novel by American writer Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was made into a film of the same name in 1976.

  3. 17-animal inheritance puzzle - Wikipedia

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    A variant of the story has been told with 11 camels, to be divided into 1 ⁄ 2, 14, and 16. [22] [23] Another variant of the puzzle appears in the book The Man Who Counted, a mathematical puzzle book originally published in Portuguese by Júlio César de Mello e Souza in 1938. This version starts with 35 camels, to be divided in the ...

  4. Rhind Mathematical Papyrus - Wikipedia

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    7 divided by 10 yields 2/3 + 1/30. After these two tables, the papyrus records 91 problems altogether, which have been designated by moderns as problems (or numbers) 1–87, including four other items which have been designated as problems 7B, 59B, 61B and 82B. Problems 17, 7B and 8–40 are concerned with arithmetic and elementary algebra.

  5. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution was well received by American critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 78% of 18 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10. [5] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "nothing less than the most exhilarating entertainment of the film year to date."

  6. Short division - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the division is reduced to small steps. Starting from the left, enough digits are selected to form a number (called the partial dividend) that is at least 4×1 but smaller than 4×10 (4 being the divisor in this problem). Here, the partial dividend is 9. The first number to be divided by the divisor (4) is the partial dividend (9).

  7. The monkey and the coconuts - Wikipedia

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    n 5 n 4 n 3 4 4 0 s 4 s 3 s 2 4 4 4 1 But the same reasoning again applies to N' as applied to N, so the next digit of N' is 4, so s 2 and n 3 are also 4, etc. There are 5 divisions; the first four must leave an odd number base 5 in the pile for the next division, but the last division must leave an even number base 5 so the morning division ...

  8. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    [50] [13] [49] The conditional probability of winning by switching is ⁠ 1/3 / 1/3 + 1/6 ⁠, which is ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠. [2] The conditional probability table below shows how 300 cases, in all of which the player initially chooses door 1, would be split up, on average, according to the location of the car and the choice of door to open by the host.

  9. Percentage solution - Wikipedia

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    Percentage solution may refer to: Mass fraction (or "% w/w" or "wt.%"), for percent mass; Volume fraction (or "% v/v" or "vol.%"), volume concentration, for percent volume "Mass/volume percentage" (or "% m/v") in biology, for mass per unit volume; incorrectly used to denote mass concentration (chemistry). See usage in biology