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    mathbyvemuri

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    Updated: Oct 23, 2024
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    Three Japanese-men and three Chinese-men work for the same firm. Every one of them knows a secret not known to others. They need to exchange these secrets over person-to-person phone calls so that eventually each person knows all six secrets. None of the Chinese-men knows Japanese and only one Japanese-man knows Chinese. What is the minimum number of phone calls needed for the above purpose?
    (A) 5 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 15 (E) 18

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  • Dancer_Engineer

    Member • May 9, 2012

    The answer is 9.

    Only one man can communicate in both the languages, let's call him the main person M.
    The rest are J1, J2, C1, C2, C3.
    Suppose these 5 men are standing in a row.

    M will sequentially listen to their secrets and exchange his secret with them. When he reaches C3, he is the first man to know all 6 secrets while the others know their secrets, M's secret and the mens' secret who are standing before them in the row. M exchanges his secret with C3, thus making him the 2nd man to know all the 6 secrets. M will now move backwards in the row and exchange with each men the secret of the men standing after them in the row. Thus making 9 calls in all.

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  • mathbyvemuri

    Member • May 9, 2012

    #-Link-Snipped-#, Kudos, explained it very well...
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  • mathbyvemuri

    Member • May 13, 2012

    Yes the answer is 9. #-Link-Snipped-# explained it very well. I will give the sequence of calls:
    let us name the three Japaneese as J1,J2 and J3, and the three Chinese as C1,C2,C3.
    Let us consider the only Japanese knowing both Japanese and Chinese languages be J1.

    PhoneCall --Between --Who knows-What?
    1 -----------C1-C2 ----C1 Knows secret of C2
    2 -----------C1-C3 ----C1 Knows secret of C3
    3 -----------J1-J2 -----J1 Knows secret of J2
    4 -----------J1-J3 -----J1 Knows secret of J3
    5 -----------J1-C1 -----By this call both J1 and C1 get to know all the secrets
    6 -----------J1-J2 -----J2 knows all secrets
    7 -----------J1-J3 -----J3 knows all secrets
    8 -----------C1-C2 ----C2 knows all secrets
    9 -----------C1-C3 ----C3 knows all secrets
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  • Dancer_Engineer

    Member • May 13, 2012

    #-Link-Snipped-#, there are 3 Chinese men not 4.

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  • mathbyvemuri

    Member • May 13, 2012

    #-Link-Snipped-#, Thanks, I have edited it.
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