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Riddle/Question FUN! Pills

bleuiko

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You are on a strict medical regimen that requires you to take two types of pills each day. You must take exactly one A pill and exactly one B pill at the same time. The pills are very expensive, and you don't want to waste any. So you open the bottle of A pills, and tap one out into your hand. Then you open the bottle of B pills and do the same thing -- but you make a mistake, and two B pills come out into your hand with the A pill. But the pills are all exactly identical. There is no way to tell A pills apart from B pills. How can you satisfy your regimen and take exactly one of each pill at the same time, without wasting any pills?

Answers will come later.
 
take on of the B pills out of your hand and put it back in B bottle. Just because it looks alike doesn't mean you didn't see and feel which one it was.
 
Originally posted by: bleuiko
Nope, assume they are all exactly identical and you closed your palm so the pills are now mixed.

And no, they are different drugs, just same feel, weight, as far as you can tell.
 
Originally posted by: Zeeky Boogy Doog
take a new one of each out of the bottle
/thread

Word.
Keep the three you did have until the end.
One bottle will run out first, you can work out which type the extra pill was, and then figure out from there :Q
 
Originally posted by: Zeeky Boogy Doog
take a new one of each out of the bottle
/thread


You don't want to waste anything. Why? I don't know. You just don't want to.

Answer after I get 2 more replies.
 
Originally posted by: bleuiko
Originally posted by: bleuiko
Nope, assume they are all exactly identical and you closed your palm so the pills are now mixed.

And no, they are different drugs, just same feel, weight, as far as you can tell.

um, since they are EXACTLY identical, then just take any two, doesn't matter since they are EXACTLY identical

:roll:
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Originally posted by: Zeeky Boogy Doog
take a new one of each out of the bottle
/thread

Word.
Keep the three you did have until the end.
One bottle will run out first, you can work out which type the extra pill was, and then figure out from there :Q

You already know it was a B pill.
 
The pills are exactly identical. So just take any two pills. It doesn't matter. A and B are exactly the same medication.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
The pills are exactly identical. So just take any two pills. It doesn't matter. A and B are exactly the same medication.
bleuiko said they were different medications
Originally posted by: bleuiko
And no, they are different drugs, just same feel, weight, as far as you can tell.
 
Take one more of pill A from the A bottle. You then have two of each pill in your hand. You are to take two of each pill each day so you take the entire days worth of dosage at once.

Reread and it doesn't say that you take two of each pill per day. So this probably isn't right.
 
Originally posted by: bleuiko
And no, they are different drugs, just same feel, weight, as far as you can tell.
Very simple then. I'd analyze the chemical structure of them to find out what they are.
Originally posted by: sheik124
bleuiko said they were different medications
Then they are not exactly the same. And they can be easilly identified with a little equipment.
 
ANSWER IS HERE:

Cut up the three pills (AA BB BB) and take half of each (A B B). Cut up another A pill (AA) and add it to the half (A B B + A). You now have a full set of each one (AA BB) which you take today. Tomorrow, you take the remainder (A B B + A). None wasted. And the third day you learn the lesson of not tapping into the same hand.
 
Originally posted by: Stvfarmboy
Take one more of pill A from the A bottle. You then have two of each pill in your hand. You are to take two of each pill each day so you take the entire days worth of dosage at once.

Reread and it doesn't say that you take two of each pill per day. So this probably isn't right.

very simple math from here you have 2 bs and an a, you add an a and you have 2a's and 2b's,
2/2=1/1!
huh? huh? yup, i thought so. where's my prize?
 
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