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Quantum CyberTeaser: September/October 1996

B183 Cutting kerosene. You have two large, opaque vessels. One contains kerosene, the other contains kerosene and water. How can you tell the one from the other using a spring scale and a weight on a string? Solution

The winners:

• Oleg Shpyrko (Rochester, New York)
• Xi-an Li (Middlebury, Vermont)
• Sabrina Sowers (Baltimore, Maryland)
• Matthew Wong (Edmonton, Alberta)
• Maeline Krig (Minnesota)
• Anna Domnich (Holbrook, New York)
• Amy Forster (Cygnet, Australia)
• Marc Oliver Rieger (Konstanz, Germany)
• Jeff Canter (Nashville, Tennessee)
• May T. Lim (Quezon City, Philippines)

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