beginnig or ending

The examination has gone, I lost one problem. But in a word, I did it perfect. Now I must do my job, which it is important for me, the math and my subject. I am feel the math is hard, maybe I haven’t preview it for a long time, so I must preview it right now! This afternoon the teacher of the software subject management give some semiconductor of Microsoft exam. I thought it was very interesting because some of them were very familiar for me, for example a problem is like this: There are nine trees, how to plant them to getting tem rows and every row there are three trees. I remember it was set by Newton, so I answer it as soon as I heard it. But there is another problem I don’t know how to resolve: There are twelve balls which look the same, but there is one ball’s quality is different to the other(maybe it was heavier or lighter), now weighting them only three times to find the especial one, the problem is how to do it? And when them were thirteen?