A man wants to have a party in thirty-one days where he will be serving his 1000 barrels of wine. The only problem is that one o

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A man wants to have a party in thirty-one days where he will be serving his 1000 barrels of wine. The only problem is that one o

f his enemies poisoned one of the barrels. The poison kills any man who drinks any of the wine in about 30 days, give or take a few hours. The man has 10 plants that are also killed by the poison in 30 days and can be used to test the wine. How can identify the single poisoned barrel of wine?

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ira [324] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-18T13:04:55+03:00

ira [324]4 years ago

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Using 1000 plants, each for an individual barrel. The plant that was poisoned will die within thirty days, that way the people will not die. Personally I don't see what's so bad about using 1000 humans as text subjected though ;)