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Originally Posted by masraum
I have a problem with the doctor/pills question. I got it right, but the question doesn't say if you should take the first one initially or if you should wait to take the first one. I think that's kind of important.
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Yeah, I got that one right as well, but if you are going to argure the logic of the Q, a better angle would be regarding the term "last".
The question is:
"A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. how many minutes would the pills last?"
Well, if you take pill #1 at 1pm, it
lasts until 1:30. You take pill #2 @ 1:30, which
lasts until 2:00pm. So if you take pill #3 @ 2:00, wouldn't it
last until 2:30? You could argure the correct answer is actually 90.
EDIT: Brian beat me to it...