Friday 4 November 2011

Sagnik Bhattacharya's Safe combinations

Sagnik Bhattacharya's Safe combinations

A group of 11 scientists are working on a secret project, the materials of which are kept in a safe. They want to be able to open the safe only when a majority of the group is present. Therefore the safe is provided with a number of different locks, and each scientist is given the keys to certain of these locks. How many locks are required, and how many keys must each scientist have?

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