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Math Puzzles of the Month: April 2003
Telling Time With Fuses

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You have some fuses, each of which burns for exactly one hour, but unevenly - that is half a length of fuse does not necessarily burn for half an hour. You have as many fuses and matches as you want.

How can you use these to measure 45 minutes?

 

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