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Quantum CyberTeaser: November/December 1996

B187 Lost weight. The masses of weights in a set are 1 g, 2 g, 3 g, …, 101 g. The 19-g weight was lost. Is it possible to divide the remaining 100 weights into two groups with the same number of pieces and the same total weight? [V. Proizvolov] Solution

The winners:

• Jean-Baptiste Legros (Fontainebleau, France)
• Steve Hunter (Ascot, Berkshire, UK)
• Oleg Shpyrko (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• John J. Drozd (London, Ontario)
• Leo Borovskiy (Brooklyn, New York)
• Ted Lau (Fenton, Michigan)
• Kiran Raj (Berkeley, California)
• Iljong Lee (Berkeley, California)
• Clarissa Lee (Perak, Malaysia)
• May T. Lim (Quezon City, Philippines)

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