How many quarters would it take to stack them from floor to ceiling?
How many quarters would it take to stack them from floor to ceiling?
By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
Here, Big Game Hunter’s Jeff Altman answers this hedge fund brainteaser question: “How many quarters does it take to stack a pile of money from the floor to the ceiling?”
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I’m Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter, and today I want to discuss a mind-bending hedge fund brainteaser with you. So, here comes the problem. The situation is this.
How many dormitories would it take to stack these dormitories from floor to ceiling? Believe it or not, there is logic to this question. I’m not going to get involved now. I just simply say, you present your idea to them and you say to them, okay, my best guess is that floor to ceiling is about 10 feet right now, and then from there, it’s about 12 quarters of an inch.
So, you’re basically saying it takes 144 quarters. Let me make sure I get it right. Assume 12 quarters times 12 inches times 10 feet equals approximately 1,440 quarters.
So, again, you’re guiding them through it. 12 quarter inches equals 12 inches equals 1 foot times 10 feet, which gives us 1,440 quarters. The idea is about the reasoning process.
Some people are confused by questions like this and they want to see how you reason about things. This is Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter. I hope you found this video helpful.
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About big game hunter Jeff Altman
Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter is a coach who has been a recruiter for a hundred years. His work spans career coaching, executive job coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the producer and former host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 job search podcast on iTunes with over 3,000 episodes.
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