[AccessD] OT: Friday Puzzles

OK...
I would like to revise and extend my remarks...
Assuming an army of 100, 10 lost all 4

70 lost an eye
	So 30 did NOT lose an eye
75 lost an ear
	So 25 did NOT lose an ear
80 lost an arm
	So 20 did NOT lose an arm
85 lost a leg
	So 15 did NOT lose an leg

The soldiers that retained at least one of the body parts is 90 (30+25+20+15
= 90) meaning that 10 lost all 4.

Kevin Waddle
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-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 10:22 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Friday Puzzles

That's wrong, and a bit(?)/plain(?) stupid, sorry. Any, takers? (I'm off
till tomorrow's late evening/Monday).

Thank you.

--Shamil

-----Original Message-----
From: Shamil Salakhetdinov [mailto:shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru] 
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 7:30 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Friday Puzzles

8925 medals.

Correct?

x = size of the army
y = qty of soldiers who have lost one arm, one leg, one ear and one eye;

y = 0.85*(1-0.8)*0.75*0.7x

Assuming that army size is between 100,000+ and 150,000
(
http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/units.html
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/army/l/blchancommand.htm
)

the anwers would be

foreach (int x in Enumerable.Range(100000,50001))
{
    decimal y = 0.85m * (1.0m-0.8m) * 0.75m * 0.7m * x;

    if (y == (decimal)(int)y)
        Console.WriteLine("// SizeOfTheArmy={0:#,0}+, Medals={1} ", 
            x, (decimal)(int)y); 
}

// SizeOfTheArmy=100,000+, Medals=8925
// SizeOfTheArmy=104,000+, Medals=9282
// SizeOfTheArmy=108,000+, Medals=9639
// SizeOfTheArmy=112,000+, Medals=9996
// SizeOfTheArmy=116,000+, Medals=10353
// SizeOfTheArmy=120,000+, Medals=10710
// SizeOfTheArmy=124,000+, Medals=11067
// SizeOfTheArmy=128,000+, Medals=11424
// SizeOfTheArmy=132,000+, Medals=11781
// SizeOfTheArmy=136,000+, Medals=12138
// SizeOfTheArmy=140,000+, Medals=12495
// SizeOfTheArmy=144,000+, Medals=12852
// SizeOfTheArmy=148,000+, Medals=13209

As we do not have the general's army size defined but we know that general
wanted to reward teh fewest number of soldiers then we select the minimal
appropriate army size = 100,000 soldiers, and then the answer will be 8925
medals.

Correct?

Thank you.

--Shamil

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