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srn437
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A patient has fallen very ill and has been advised to take exactly one pill of medicine X and exactly one pill of medicine Y each day, lest he die from either illness or overdosage. These pills must be taken together. The patient has bottles of X pills and Y pills. He puts one of the X pills in his hand. Then while tilting the bottle of Y pills, two Y pills accidentally fall out. Now there are three pills in his hand. Because both types of pill look identical, he cannot tell which two pills are type Y and which is type X. Since the pills are extremely expensive, the patient does not wish to throw away the ones in his hand. How can he save the pills in his hand and still maintain a proper daily dosage?
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Re: 1x 2y
« Reply #1 on: Sep 2nd, 2007, 4:52pm » |
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Split each pill in half and put one half of each pill in a group on the left and the other half of each pill in a group on the right
The right group contains .5X and 1.0Y
The left group is the same
Day 1:
Take the left group + one half pill from the X pill bottle
Day 2:
Take the right group + one half pill from the X pill bottle
Day 3:
Resume regular routine: 1 pill from X bottle and 1 pill from Y bottle
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srn437
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Re: 1x 2y
« Reply #2 on: Sep 2nd, 2007, 5:13pm » |
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Yep. That may have been read in easy, but it was still a hard riddle. Does spliting a pill in half still contain the nutrients and stuff though?
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Re: 1x 2y
« Reply #3 on: Sep 2nd, 2007, 5:13pm » |
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srn347, you might find this informative.
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Re: 1x 2y
« Reply #4 on: Sep 2nd, 2007, 5:19pm » |
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on Sep 2nd, 2007, 5:13pm, srn347 wrote:| Does spliting a pill in half still contain the nutrients and stuff though? |
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If the pills are in tablet form, then splitting should be OK. The only tablets that splitting might be a problem is the slow release type that have a special coating. After splitting, the coating is no longer effective and the release will be faster than intended.
If you have capsules (a powder inside a thin plastic container of cylinder shape), you can generally open up the container and take out half the contents only you would need an empty capsule to put it in.
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Re: 1x 2y
« Reply #5 on: Sep 2nd, 2007, 5:46pm » |
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Both interesting.
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