Jars and marbles 问题

You have 10 jars, each filled with many marbles. Each marble weighs exactly 1.0 grams. One of the jars is a bad batch meaning each marble inside weighs 1.1 grams instead of 1.0 grams. You have a scale that will give you back a number of how much things weigh on it. Using only one measurement, determine how would you be able to find the bad batch

scale是秤的意思

答案是：

Line up the jars in some fashion. 
Take 1 marble from the first jar 
Take 2 marbles from the second jar 
Take 3 marbles from the third jar 
and so forth up to the ninth jar 
Don't take any from the tenth jar 
 
Put the marbles on the scale. 
 
If the scale reads a whole number, then the tenth jar is the jar that contains the marbles that weigh 1.1g 
 
If the scale reads #.1 then it is the first jar that contains marbles that weigh 1.1g (1x1.1 will give you #.1)
 
If the scale reads #.2 then it is the second jar that contains marbles that weigh 1.1g (2x1.1 will give you #.2) 
 
If the scale reads #.3 then it is the third jar that contains marbles that weigh 1.1g (3x1.1 will give you #.3) 
 
and so forth 

如果一个jar里面可以有1个或两个1,1g 的marble，那么为了产生每个独立的组合，则下一个要比上一组大。