Brainteaser Answer

Can you place ten lumps of sugar in three empty cups so that there is an odd number of lumps in each cup?

Answer: There are many different answers to this problem, so here is just one of them. Put seven lumps in one cup, two lumps in another and one in the third. Now place the last cup in the second one. The second cup will contain three lumps.

The winner is BioE graduate student Mike Rosenbluth.

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