Quicker Maths
24Dec/1118

Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches

IQ Test

Imagine you are in a big house and you need to match out the 3 switches located in the first floor with the three light bulbs located in the ground floor. In the ground floor there are 3 bulbs (all are off at the moment), each switch belongs to some bulb.

Question

How can you find out, which switch belongs to which bulb?

Other conditions

It is impossible to see from one room to another.

He can only get down only once to check out the bulb.

Only hands are used. No other device.

 

 

 

Leave your answers below as comments.

 

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  1. Turn on one light, turn other light for some time and keep off, dont swich on the third one and check the temperature of the second and third bulbs

  2. First switch on Switch A for ten minutes.Then switch it off and switch on Switch B.Now go down the and see the bulbs.The bulb which is hot belongs to Switch A,the bulb which is glowing belongs to Switch B and the third bulb belongs to Switch C.:)

  3. 1. Switchon A and wait for 5min
    2. Swithchoff A and switchon B, go to the down stair
    3. The ON bulb belongs to switch B, hot wired bulb belongs to switch A and cold wired belongs to switch C… :)

  4. Switch on A for 5-10 minutes and then for 1-2 minutes switch on B. After this switch off both. Then go downstairs and check which one is more among the three, that bulb corresponds to A, next you can check for B and C.
    One more solution to this problem is that you can take somebody’s help by keeping him/her on the ground floor.

  5. not so difficult many answers are same and right i.e. switch on for 5 to 10 minutes

  6. hey dude nice question but I Can solve it with some of good argue explanations… can you provide the size of every wires which is used to connect every bulbs and switches

  7. switch on A for 5-10 min, then switch it off. Now put on the switch B for just 10 sec . Now check the bulbs. The bulb which is hottest corresponds to switch A, and the bulb which is coldest corresponds to switch C and the other one belongs to Switch B.

  8. Switch on A and B go down and watch you will find any two bulbs glowing suppose first and third are glowing so come back and switch off A and Switch on Second now one of the bulb would go off and the second bulb along with the previous one would be there lit up thus after this you can find the exactly which bulb belongs to which switch

  9. SIR PLEASE PROVIDE THE PROOF OF PYTHAGORAS THEORM IN MATHEMATICS viz.
    H2 = B2 + P2 & The area of traingle formed by joining mid points of the sides of a given triangle is one-fourth of the area of the given Traingle .

  10. SIR PLEASE PROVIDE THE PROOF OF PYTHAGORAS THEORM IN MATHEMATICS viz.
    H2 = B2 + P2 & The area of traingle formed by joining mid points of the sides of a given triangle is one-fourth of the area of the given Traingle .

  11. 1. switch on A and B
    2. go and check bulb
    3. again switch off any one.
    3. go and watch to find answer.
    (A. B. is on then only c in remaining, so u find “c” and when u off “B” u will find that too. so last one is “A” )

    • really that is one mistake one watching.

      1. on “A” and “B” 5 to 10 min.
      2. off the “B”
      3. watch what is on (A), bulb with hot wire is (B) and cold one is (C)

      lol.

  12. first switch on the bulb A for some time (5-10 min).and switch off it and now switch on the bulb B.go downstairs,touch two off bulbs which one is hot belongs to switch A.and the bulb which glows belongs to switch B.and the remaining one belongs to switch C

  13. switch on A for some time (say, 5 min)and switch off it and switch on B and immediately come down and touch the two off bulbs.the bulb which is hot among these two bulb is linked to switch A and the on bulb is linked with switch B and the other switch off bulb is linked with the switch C.

  14. First switch on bulb1 for 5 minutes and switch off it and switch on bulb2.
    Now go down and touch off two bulbs and heated one will be one which
    switch on first.Glowing bulb is the second one switched on and remaining is for the bulb3

  15. swith on A for 5-10 min, then switch it off. Now put on the switch B for just 10 sec . Now check the bulbs. The bulb which is hottest corresponds to switch A, and the bulb which is coldest corresponds to switch C and the other one belongs to Switch B.

  16. Switch 1 for more than 10 minutes , then switch it off. Switch an another bulb and go down the stairs immediately to see the bulbs. The one which is hot is the bulb belonging to the first switch , the one glowing is the bulb belonging to the 2nd switch. The other one belonging to the third.

  17. swith on A, then wait for some time.. then switch it off. Now put on the switch B n for just 10 sec . Now go down and touch the bulbs. The bulb which is hottest corresponds to switch A, and the bulb which is coldest corresponds to switch C and the other one belongs to Switch B.
    :)


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