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A couple of the folks I had the pleasure of interviewing down at Stanford wanted me to update this post to include the questions I asked them. I’m not going to give them all away, and a couple of the more entertaining questions were:
Which of Microsoft’s seven businesses would you sell? Why?
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3 years ago
There are several test cases, the boat is mired in muck before/after release(after), boat is mired in muck before(before) not after release, or the boat is floating(float) and the rock floats(floats), the rock sinks(sinks) or the rock gets mired in muck(muck).
So you have:
after/floats water level rises because more water is displaced.
after/sinks water level rises because more water is displaced.
after/muck water level rises because more water is displaced.
before/floats water level rises because more water is displaced.
before/sinks water level lowers because less water is displaced.
before/muck Indeterminate conclusion, need more information about the state of water displacement.
float/floats water level stays the same because the same amount of water is displaced.
float/sinks water level lowers because less water is displaced.
float/muck Indeterminate conclusion, need more information about the state of water displacement.
Based on an equal probability of all test cases, most likely the water will rise. (I need a $2.3 million grant from the government to finish studying this problem.:)