Why Do You Wanna Know?
Apparently we have too many trick questions, because not one of you actually tried to do the math on Friday's riddle: You have two coconuts and you want to find out how high they can be dropped from a 100 story building before they break. But you only have $1.50 and the elevator costs a dime each time you ride it. How can you drop the coconuts to guarantee you will find the lowest floor they will break at, while starting and ending at floor 1? The answer: Drop it at floor 1 first and then go to floors 14, 27, 39, 50, 60, 69, 77, 84, 90, 95, 99, and 100. Whatever floor your first coconut breaks at, go to the floor above the last floor the coconut survived and drop the second coconut from this floor. Then go up by one floor until the second coconut breaks and that is the lowest floor it will break at. We'll award a free ticket to Bisnow's Capital Markets event to Three Square Design Group's Jake Donaldson, the first of many who told us "take the stairs."
