A secret can be told only 2 persons in 5 minutes .the
same person tells to 2 more persons and so on . How long
will take to tell it to 768 persons ?
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Answer Posted / vikas kumar
haramzado gandh payya hua hai
khud to wrong kiya hai dusro ko bhi bakwaas sikha rahe ho
5 min-2 1 slot
10-4 2nd slot
15-8 3rd slot
20-16 4th slot
25-32 5th slot
30-64 6th slot
35-128 7th slot
40-256 8th slot
till now total people knowing secret is
1+2+4+8+16+32+64+128+256=511(approxx) heee..
for next 5 min all 256 people will be telling crap secret to
their next 2 people each.so in 5 minutes
we will have 768 people.time required will be same either
we need 257 people or 512 i.e 5minutes
so
40min + 5 min = 45 minutes.
vkx
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