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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Well Waddaya Know XIX

Last week's Q&A:
There are about 23,000 prisoners in Israel - 14,000 criminal and 9,000 security. How many of the criminal prisoners are women?

200
5 (15%)
1000
8 (24%)
2200
11 (33%)
5100
9 (27%)
There are about 225 female criminal prisoners in Israel with all residing in Neve Tirtzah in Ramle. It is the one womens' prison in Israel and is named for Tzlafchad's daughter Tirtzah.

This week's question - in Shragi's words, a math one in my honor (and to change things up), is up to the left.

3 comments:

  1. The current math puzzler can be interpreted two ways. Are the marbles that are of the same color intended to be indistinguishable from others of the same color?

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  2. Charlie - I understood that to be the case, yes.

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