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DE-MO 2014 Problem 5

    There are 99 visually indistinguishable coins, and one of them is fake and thus lighter. We are given 33 indistinguishable balance scales to find the fake coin; however, one of the scales is defective and shows a random result each time. Show that the fake coin can still be found with 44 weighings.

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