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There are 4 unmarked bottles of pills. Each bottle has 100 pills, but there is one bottle that contains poisoned pills. The healthy pills weigh one gram per pill, but the poisoned pills weigh 1.1 grams per pill. You can also use a scale, but you can only use it one time. How can you determine with certainty which bottle contains the pills????

2006-09-20 11:47:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

10 answers

There's a similar riddle, so if you just follow the format of: http://www.justriddlesandmore.com/weightyone.html, then you'll get it.

2006-09-20 11:51:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You can take one pill from each bottle and place them on the scale. It will register 4.1 grams. Remove one pill at a time. If you've removed a 1 gram pill, it will say 3.1 grams. If you remove a 1.1 gram pill it will say 3.0... if the 1st pill weighed 1 gram, you can keep removing a pill until you come to a 2.0 or1.0 gram weight. You will then know which pill weighs 1.1 gram. Of course, I hope you remembered which bottle that pill came out of!!

2006-09-20 11:54:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

put all 4 bottles on the scale, and remove them one at a time... a bottle of non poisoned pills will reduce the weight by 100 grams...
the bottle of poisoned pills will reduce the weight by 110 grams.

2006-09-20 11:53:56 · answer #3 · answered by peterpipersux 2 · 0 0

Put 3 bottles on the scales.

2006-09-20 11:50:09 · answer #4 · answered by L3-knightw1zard 4 · 0 0

the last part of your question states, "How can you determine with certainty which bottle contains the pills?", so my answer to you is, all of the bottles contains pills.

2006-09-20 11:57:56 · answer #5 · answered by jessica i 2 · 0 0

take the pills until you hit the ones that are poisonous, then if you time throw that bottle away

2006-09-20 11:55:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Get the bottles tie them with strings then hang them up on the side of a table.make sure strings are even. you see which one isthe lowest. that would determine which is poison.

2006-09-20 11:52:36 · answer #7 · answered by USMC 4 · 0 0

take one pill out of each and measure them against one another.
take the largest pill and weigh it.

2006-09-20 11:56:34 · answer #8 · answered by slingblade 2 · 0 0

Feel which bottle's heaviest.

2006-09-20 11:55:17 · answer #9 · answered by p2of9 4 · 0 0

I dunno

2006-09-20 11:56:53 · answer #10 · answered by Gator. 4 · 0 0

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