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    Switch 1 produces chlorine smell if activated, switch 2 produces bubbles from electrodes if activated, and switch 3 produces neither if activated. To determine which switch was activated, activate switches 1 and 2 separately and check for chlorine smell or electrode bubbles to narrow it down to one switch.

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    Switch 1 produces chlorine smell if activated, switch 2 produces bubbles from electrodes if activated, and switch 3 produces neither if activated. To determine which switch was activated, activate switches 1 and 2 separately and check for chlorine smell or electrode bubbles to narrow it down to one switch.

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    Switch 1 produces chlorine smell if activated, switch 2 produces bubbles from electrodes if activated, and switch 3 produces neither if activated. To determine which switch was activated, activate switches 1 and 2 separately and check for chlorine smell or electrode bubbles to narrow it down to one switch.

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    Answer to Prof.

    Zare's Favorite Brain Teaser

    You are familiar with chlorine and its characteristic smell: this is the active ingredient in household
    bleach. If the cell has been on, you will be able smell chlorine in the room.

    Logically, there are three possibilities and you need to reduce that to one certain outcome - so you
    need, at least, two measurements.

    Turn on switch #1 for a few minutes; turn it off and then turn on switch #2. Now, enter the room.

    If bubbles are coming from the electrodes, it is switch #2. If no bubbles are coming from the electrodes
    but you smell chlorine, then it is switch #1. If neither bubbles come from the electrodes nor is there
    any smell of chlorine, then it is switch #3.

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