television cameras puzzle
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Television Cameras puzzle
Damian Gordon
Television Cameras puzzle
• From G. Polya’s “How to Solve It”
• You work at a television station and are required to plug Camera ‘A’ into socket ‘a’, Camera ‘B’ into socket ‘b’, and Camera ‘C’ into socket ‘c’
• You are not allowed to cross the wires.
• It’s easy if the cameras are positioned as follows:
Television Cameras puzzle
• But what happens if we swap around camera ‘B’ and ‘C’
Television Cameras puzzle
• Where do we go from here??
• Solution follows:
Television Cameras puzzle
• In other words...