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There are 10 pill bottles. 9 bottles are full of non-poisonous pills and there is one bottle full of poisonous pills. The non-poisonous pills weight 1 ounce each and the poisonous pills weigh 1.1 ounces each. There is a weighing scale that you can use only 1 time. How do you figure which bottle has the poisonous pills?

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Answer: open all the bottles count the pills or ask in each bottle the 1 ounce will have 1 less then all of the 1.1 ounce

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