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There are 5 bowls with 100 candies each. In 4 bowls, all of the candies are 10 grams each. In 1 bowl, all the candies are 9 grams each. Using a digital scale, how can you determine which bowl has the 9 gram candies by using only 1 weighing?
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Senior Hardware Verification Engineer

Interviewed at NVIDIA

4.5★
Jan 30, 2010

There are 5 bowls with 100 candies each. In 4 bowls, all of the candies are 10 grams each. In 1 bowl, all the candies are 9 grams each. Using a digital scale, how can you determine which bowl has the 9 gram candies by using only 1 weighing?

try to get a pattern out of string or json. ask you to translate numbers from 1 to 100 to names of numbers ( for example 34 translated to thirty-four). you need to come with a solution within 10 seconds, I am able to get it done within 2 minutes. That's not fast enough.
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.5★
May 8, 2018

try to get a pattern out of string or json. ask you to translate numbers from 1 to 100 to names of numbers ( for example 34 translated to thirty-four). you need to come with a solution within 10 seconds, I am able to get it done within 2 minutes. That's not fast enough.

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