Quote Originally Posted by smart_coder View Post
There are 5 thiefs and they rob a bag of gold coins in it. There were 100 gold coins.They decided to divide the gold coins among themselves.
There was a seniority level among the thiefs.
1 means highest seniority and 5 means lowest seniority .
So dey decided that thief with the highest seniority will propose a method to divide gold coins and then there wud b a polling. If there is atleast 50% majority in favour of him then his proposal will b accepted otherwise other thiefs will kill him and now the next seniormost thief will propose a method and again a polling will held..nd the story goes on....
The thiefs are equally greedy and equally intelligent.
What proposal wud u put if u were been the senior most thief ?
Hi smartcoder


I think senior most thief, when taking decision will keep in mind profit of level 1(himself), level 2 and level 3. This is because,when there is polling he requires atleast 50%. (that means 5/2= 3 persons).i.e atleast 3 persons should vote in his favour.
(note:there is seniority level, thats why i selected level 2 and 3)


He wont care of level4 and level 5 thief.(SINCE its also told that every thief is greedy).

probably divide the coins as

45,30,25

Kill level 4 and level 5 thief(afterall they are juniors).50% polling condition will also be satisfied, because level 2 and level 3 thief will like it a lot!

If i was the senior most thief, i would do this!
I hope iam right, and if not, atleast close to the answer!

bye