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Interview Question for Project Manager/Implementation Consultant at Epic:

Mar 18, 2011

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You have a bouquet of flowers. All but two are roses, all but two are daisies, and all but two are tulips. How many flowers do you have?

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Mar 21, 2011

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Apr 4, 2011

by Daktari3:

Two flowers, neither of which are roses, daisies or tulips. Maybe geraniums.

If the problem requires that all flowers are R, D or T, then one of each will work. Three.

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Apr 17, 2011

by abc:

3 flowers - 1 rose, 1 daisy and 1 tulip

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Dec 29, 2011

by Morna:

Answer's 3, one of each.

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Jan 7, 2012

by sheetal:

3- one of each

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Jan 10, 2012

by rayz:

6. 2 of each kind listed.

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Jan 10, 2012

by VEV:

Don't forget the trivial solution (none).

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Jan 10, 2012

by William:

We know there's two of each considering that the three types are not overlapping but we don't really know the total. The answer is "At least 6".

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Jan 10, 2012

by Yianni:

Do you really have a bouquet if you have just 2 or 3 flowers? Otherwise, you have either 2 or 3 flowers

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Jan 10, 2012

by Flower Child:

The solution is quite simple, if you start with the “All but 2” first:
Roses = All but 2 = Two flowers are not a rose; one tulip, one daisy
Daisies = All but 2 = Two flowers are not a daisy; one rose, one tulip
Tulips = All but 2 = Two flowers are not a tulip; one rose, one daisy
Answer: One rose, one daisy, one tulip.

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Jan 10, 2012

by Isaac:

The question is contradictory - the question says ALL of your flowers are Roses except two, and goes on to say ALL of your flowers are Daises except two. All of your flowers cannot be both Roses and Daises and Tulips.

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Jan 10, 2012

by Anonymous:

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Jan 10, 2012

by jason:

3... Impossible is never a good answer...

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Jan 10, 2012

by Angela:

The real question is what did the man do to his wife to have to bring her flowers to begin with?

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Jan 10, 2012

by toadaly:

Three. You have one of each kind.

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Jan 10, 2012

by BigSoph:

Isaac and Rayz, you both failed logic

If I have 3 things, say a tire iron, a hammer and a hedgehog, I can accurately say that all but two are tire irons

If I had six (let's say two of each of the above) and said all but two are tire irons, this fails. I have six objects, two of which are tire irons - the math shows that four items are not tire irons

The answer only works at 3

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Jan 10, 2012

by Anonymous:

unknown. Could be 3, could be 6, 9, 12, any multiple of 3

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Jan 10, 2012

by Greg:

I would say, "Do you consider three flowers to be a bouquet?"

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Jan 10, 2012

by Paul:

Me: I have a Bouquet of flowers

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Jan 10, 2012

by Luke:

Nice riddle, but the way it is written there is no solution. If you have a rose, a daisy, and a tulip then all but two is a rose (not roses), all but two is a daisy (not daisies), and all but two is a tulip (not tulips). But if it was written this way the answer is obvious.

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Jan 11, 2012

by Brian:

The entire bouquet is flowers. So the answer is they are all flowers. This is one of the oldest riddles in the book. The questioner distracts the answerer by providing frivolous information - the number of roses, tulips and so on. Most answerers will try to give a literal answer to what they perceive as a literal "how many" question. When in fact, the questioner is asking how many of whatever number of stems in the bouquet are flowers and all of them are.

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Jan 11, 2012

by Ashish:

I would go with luke.....

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Jan 11, 2012

by Lisa:

3, but I hate wording that is designed to mislead. I think that reflects poorly on the company.

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Jan 11, 2012

by alfasin:

two buttercups :)

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Jan 15, 2012

by rumberobueno:

Considering that n is the total number of flowers we have:

n - 2 = t (the number of tulips)
n - 2 = d (the number of daisies)
n - 2 = r ( the number of roses)

The question is: are there only roses, daisies and tulips in the bouquet ?

If yes we also have a fourth equation:

r + d + t = n

In this case we add the three equations above and we get

3n -6 = n (because n = r + d + t)

2n = 6

n = 3

If there are more than daisies, tulips and roses in the bouquet we have a system of three equations with four unknowns so the solution space is infinite.

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Jan 20, 2012

by Neethu:

All!

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Jan 25, 2012

by Ion:

@rumberobueno
your math is great here, but it is NOT possible to have the 4th kind of flowers because
it says:

a) all but 2 are roses - in this case we can have at most 3 kind of flowers
the same for the other cases, in conclusion we have only 3 kind of flowers and from your math we can say we have 1 of each kind.

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Feb 29, 2012

by live4logan:

There is a definate mathematical approach to this question as was stated earlier but you can not add excess flowers. Look at it simplified:
If R=roses, T=tulips, D=daisies and X = # in bouquet; where R, T, D, and X are whole numbers greater than 0 and assuming that there are said flowers in the bouquet.
then R+2=X, T+2=X, D+2=X
then R+2=T+2=D+2
therefore R=T=D, R+T+D=X, R+T=2; T+D=2, D+R=2
T=2-R and D=2-R
therfore
R must be less than 2 but greater than 0,
then R=1
therefore
T=1 and D=1
R+T+D=X
X=3,

If there are none of said flowers in bouquet then total number is 2.

There is no other answer available with the question worded this way.

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Mar 26, 2012

by ANONYMOUS:

Enough to make me sneeze.

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Interview Question for Project Manager/Implementation Consultant at Epic:

You have a bouquet of flowers. All but two are roses, all but two are daisies, and all but two are tulips. How many flowers do you have?

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