You have 5 jars of pills. Each pill weighs 10 gram, except
for contaminated pills contained in one jar, where each pill
weighs 9 gm. Given a scale, how could you tell which jar had
the contaminated pills in just one measurement?
Answer Posted / cefil
Actually for this minimum 2 measurements are needed. Any how
if they want we can explain in luck-based-one measurement also.
Solution: Take one from each of those 5. Select any 4 and
put them like 2 on each side. If they are luckily equal
means the other one is answer.
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