Can you solve the egg drop riddle? - Yossi Elran
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The city has just opened its one-of-a-kind Faberge Egg Museum, with a single egg displayed on each floor of a 100-story building -- and the world’s most notorious jewel thief already has her eyes on the prize. Can you help the thief formulate a plan that will drop the most expensive egg she can get safely into her waiting truck? Yossi Elran shows how.
Let’s generalize to buildings with different heights. Find an equation that relates the number of floors to the least number of tries.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Yossi Elran
- Director Outis
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Addison Anderson
