A new Engineering building containing 100 offices had just been completed. John was hired to paint the numbers 1 to 100 on the doors. How many times will John have to paint the number nine (9)?
Andrew’s doctor gives him three pills and tells him to take one every half hour. How much time will have passed by the time Andrew’s taken all three pills?
Jigsaw captured 100 people and make them stand in a circle and all these people are labelled as Person1, Person2, Person3... Person100. He made them play a crazy game in which Person 1 shot Person 2 and pass the gun to the next person and so on until one stands alive.
In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
