In 1000 wine bottles stack 10 are poisoned given 10 rats
what is the minimum number of tries to find the poisoned
one. Rat dies once it licks the poisoned wine.

Answer Posted / lime

1000 bottles
10 poison bottles
10 rats

one out of every 100 bottles is poisoned
each rat licks a bottle
probability is that the 100th lick will find a poison bottle

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