Friday, October 16, 2009

25 Horses

You have to organize a racing event to find out top 3 horses. You have a 5 lane track and you DO NOT have stop watch.

Find out the minimum number of races in which you can find the winners.
-> Seven races
Best answer was given by Mandeep Singh (8) and then by Amritpal Singh (10)

6 comments:

Amritpal Singh said...

11

Karephul said...

HINT : To find the fastest horse we need 5 + 1 races; .. now we need to find only 2nd and 3rd fastest horse... :) you can definitely beat 11

Amritpal Singh said...

using your hint, i could do it in 10

Sagar said...
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Sagar said...

8 is correct

Mandeep Singh said...

7 races...::))