How's about a puzzle

Supposing that you are terminally ill, and that there are no other methods of treatment, you decide to join up in an expensive drug trial which has shown 100% rate of cure for your disease. The medication you require is quite expensive, however you have just enough cash to purchase enough medication for the entire prescription to cure you. You cannot purchase any more pills in the event that you lose one.

Over the duration of the course, you are instructed to take medication from two bottles, respectively called 'A' and 'B'. You MUST have one pill from each per day. Should you miss a day you will die. Should you take more than one pill of the same type (two A or two B etc) you will die. The pills themselves are completely indistinguishable from one another, by taste, smell, color, texture etc.

Towards the final week of the trial, with seven pills remaining from each bottle, you undertake your daily routine. You tip one pill from bottle A into your hand. However, just as you're about to tip a pill from bottle B into your hand, you are momentarily distracted. To your horror, you now realize that you have 3 pills in your hand, 1 'A' pill and 2 'B' pills.

Remembering the conditions that came with the medication, how can you ensure that you take exactly 1 dose of 'A' and 1 dose of 'B' with 100% certainty?

 

If you have a photographic memory, just remember which one was A, then remove one of the others.

 

Dr. Xendran says:
1. Take 1 new pill from each bottle, ignore the three that you took out today.
2. Lol how long till this gets banned? i only made it for this specific thread ;D

 

I'm faster than speed.
And I don't think you got it right, since in the end of the week you'll still have to choose from the three pills you have and the last one from A bottle.

 

Doesnt matter, the question said nothing about surviving the week, it only said to ensure that for this one dose, you take the correct pills.

 

xD If it says so then you're right. I thought about that too, but I was trying to figure out what you would do in the end of the week.

 

When you have the three pills you took out, 2 B and 1 A, you have 1 A left in your pill bottle. Ask the doctor to exchange the 2 A's and 2 B's for 2 A's and 2 B's that are separated from each other. You did not lose a pill, so you do not have to pay for new ones.

 

Sup, Ben?

 

<3 .
No ban yet? O_o

 

You know, if I were staff...

 

Ewww, gross. This thread has been contaminated by Xendran.

Kill it with fire!

 

JESUS CHRIST
YOU MANAGED TO POST WiTHOUT USING AN APOSTROPHE!

 

Here i was thinkin'

...opps.

 

Ohai Xendran.

 

No one else find it really sad that Xendran still lurks on a site that he's been banned from for months, let alone creatin' an alt for a single thread? which is more than likely a crappy excuse to post 'bout his existence.

Really, get a grip.

 

I don't know him, so I can't really have a say on this.

 

You've been here longer than i have. And i posted because i was bored and wanted to post in a thread. You just look for any excuse to pick on a random 15 year old kidyou don't like because you have nothing better to do with your life.

 

So what if i've been here longer than you. I didn't purposely get myself perma banned for kicks n' giggles. N' ff i really wanted to pick on a kid for some meaningless laugh then i could easily choose someone else. N' you know for a fact that my reasonin' for dislikin' you is not random.

lol, that's a riot. xDDD