There are fifteen horses and a racing track that can run five horses at a time. You have to figure out the top 3 horses out of those and you don't have any timer machine to measure. How will you find the top 3 horses?

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Accepted Answer

Divide the horses into groups of 5 and race them. Take the top 2 from each race and race them again. Finally, race the top 2 horses to determine the top 3.

Divide the horses into 3 groups of 5 and race them.
Take the top 2 horses from each race and race them again.
Finally, race the top 2 horses to determine the top 3.

Accepted Answer

First let the first 5 horses do the race.among thm who will win pick that horse and label it by lets say Winner 1

Next let the second 5 horses to run and pick the winner and name it by winner 2

Similarly for the last 5 horses pick the winner as winner 3

And now finally you got the top 3 horses among them.or we can say the fastest 3 horses among the 15 horses.

There are fifteen horses and a racing track that can run five horses at a time. You have to figure out the top 3 horses out of those and you don't have any timer machine to measure. How will you find the top 3 horses?

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