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Weighing Bags of Coins Puzzle
The Puzzle:
You have eight bags, each of them containing 48 coins.
Five of these bags contain only true coins, the rest of them contain fake coins.
Fake coins weigh 1 gram less than the real coins. You do not know what bags have fake coins and what bags have real coins. You can use a scale with precision up to 1 gram. Making only one weighing and using the minimum number of coins, how can you find the bags containing the fake coins?
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