Can you solve the jail break riddle? - Dan Finkel
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Your timing made you and your partner infamous bank robbers. Now, you need to use that timing to break out of jail. Your partner is about to flash you a signal, and exactly 45 seconds later the electric fence circuit will short out. Then you notice that your watch is broken, and all you have are two 1-minute fuses in your pocket. Can you time your escape and get free? Dan Finkel shows how.
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If you had 3 fuses that each burned for exactly a minute, how many different times could you time 90 seconds? 75 seconds? 2 minutes and 45 seconds? Try to create a complete list of times you can measure exactly with three fuses. When you have the list, explain why it is complete.

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