One hundred pennies are on a table. Ten are tails.
With your eyes closed, can you separate them into two groups so that
each group has the same number of tails?
Here is the solution:
Take any ten pennies and turn them over. If you don't believe that this works, try it!
Here is a table showing the possible coins that you could select for group one,
and the resulting number of tails in group two:
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