It’s the Boston Celtics vs the Dallas Mavericks. Use strategic thinking to figure out who's more likely to win.
It’s official, the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks will face off in the NBA Finals. The best-of-seven series tips off this Thursday and will run through June, until one team achieves the four wins required to be crowned champion. Home-court advantage plays a serious role in basketball. Since the finals comprise a maximum of seven games, and seven is an odd number, one team may get an extra home game.
The comments section had a lively discussion about the value in puzzle-y interview questions, and many of you commented or emailed alternative solutions to the puzzles that I hadn’t considered. Suppose you have one normal die and one blank die. Label the blank die with some subset of the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 so that when you roll both dice, all sums from 1 to 12 are equally likely. Answer: Label the blank die with 0, 0, 0, 6, 6, 6.
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