Some years ago, there was a town called Blarneystone with a population of 25,000, whose mayor Seamus O\u2019Shaugnessy instituted an identification system for the inhabitants that was based on their initials.<\/p>\n
Residents might have from one to three given names, and when it occurred that two people had the same initials one of them was moved to a higher administrative level of the town named Blarneystone-2.<\/p>\n
Seamus O\u2019Shaugnessy\u2019s portly wife Marybelle was in charge of administrating the initials system.<\/p>\n
Seamus O\u2019Shaugnessy wanted to preserve order in the initials system and was prepared to go to any level of Blarneystone-n necessary for this purpose.<\/p>\n
What would you say was the minimum number of persons living in Blarneystone-1 with three given names? <\/em><\/p>\n At the time, Blarneystone 2 had 1000 residents. How many of them had two given names?<\/em><\/p>\n What would be the minimum number of persons needed to start a new level of Blarneystone?<\/em><\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>