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?
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Answer Posted / prabhu
Arrange 5 jar in order 1 to 5. Take 1 pill from 1st jar, 2
pills from 2nd jar llly up to 5 pills from 5th jar. Weight
all the pills (10+20+30+40+50=150gms). If the weight is
less by 1gm-1st jar holds the contaminated pills, if less
by 2 gms-2nd jar, 3 gms-3rd jar, 4gms-4th jar, 5gms-5th
jar.
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