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What Am I Puzzle

Puzzler time. 

This one is about how cars have changed over the years. The parts have changed a lot, since the first car was introduced. 

For example, the wheels of cars used to be made out of wood, and then they evolved into steel, and then now most wheels are made out of some kind of magnesium aluminum alloy,

So this puzzler is called a "What Am I?" puzzler. And you have to guess. 

I'm going to tell you what I used to be made out of, and what I am made out of now, and you are gonna tell me what I am. 

Here it is. 

In the early days of cars, I didn't even exist.

When they saw a need for me, I was first made out of wood. 

Later on, when they discovered that wood didn't work too well, I was made out of leather. 

Sometime later, I was made out of cotton. 

Today, I am made out of a mixture of things, some of which are steel wool, iron and bronze.

What am I?

Good luck.

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The Smallest Number

Puzzler time. 

This is one of our many coin puzzlers. 

Here it is. 

Imagine that you have in front of you 50 coins. All the same type of coin. 

They all look exactly alike, except one of them is a fake. And because it's a fake, it weighs an ounce than a real coin.

So if you were to put it on a scale, it would be immediately obvious which was the phony coin, because of the imbalance that would be present on the scale. 

So you have 50 coins and a scale. One coin is fake. 

You have no weights or anything else. Just the coins and the scale. 

The puzzler is, what is the smallest number of weighing that you can do to determine which coin is the fake?
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