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There are 30 beer bottle nd one is poisoned. we have mice who will die after 14 hrs after drinking poisned beer. In 24 hrs we have to find poisoned beer bottle. How many no of mice we require to find out poisoned bottle.

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srujan  (12 years ago)

1 mice & 14hrs 28mins are enough to get the result...
At 1st min the mice tastes 1st can & dies at 14hr
At 2nd min the mice tastes 2nd can & dies at 14hr.1Min
At 3rd min the mice tastes 3rd can & dies at 14hr.2Min
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At 29th min the mice tastes 29th can & dies at 14hr.28Min
If the mice is till alive after 14hr.28Min then the poison will be in the 30th Can....

So no death and result achieved in the last case...

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Rohit Khajuria  (12 years ago)

i think the answer must be 3....

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Ashish yadav  (12 years ago)

only one mice is required for the task......
since we have 24 hours and 30 beer bottle

maintain a proper time interval(i am taking 5 min)i.e after every 5 min mice drink a different beer bottle.if it is a poisned one then we know excatly after 14 hours .

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jagdish Tak  (12 years ago)

mice die time is not given ,so answer is 1 mice

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ANUJ MAURYA  (12 years ago)

there is needed 29 mice to find out actual bottle of poison....

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SHRI KANT  (12 years ago)

six mice required...

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TANMAY DAS  (12 years ago)

ans.should be 29.becoz,if luck fever to mice then the 29 bottle have no poison.then the rest one must have poison

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vikram singh  (11 years ago)

1 mouse required,as 24-14=10,so 10hrs/30=20min.if 1st bottle is poisioned mouse dies after 14hrs 20 min , 2nd bottle 14hrs 40min, 3rd 15 hr and so on............. or we can even short the time to 10 mins

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swetha  (6 years ago)

correct answer is 5 mice

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