A Hawaiian man has two bottles of
medication. One bottle contains Pill A and the other bottle contains Pill B. He must take
one Pill A and one Pill B every day for the rest of his life or it could be life
threatening. If he takes more than one Pill A per day it will be fatal. If he takes more
than one Pill B per day it will also be fatal.
One day the man pours out one Pill A into his hand. He then mistakenly pours out two
Pill Bs into the same hand. Both Pill A and Pill B look exactly alike with no
distinguishing printing on them. He knows that he has one Pill A and two Pill Bs in his
hand but he does not know which is which. Since each pill costs over a hundred dollars,
throwing them away is not an option to him. What should he do with the pills in his hand?
A) Take another pill A from the bottle and cut them all in half. Take each half from the
four pills and consume. This equals one A and one B pill.
