on the mouse one, could you not mix wines?
100 bottles, divide into 2 groups, feed mouse...
Separate poisoned bottles into 2 groups feed mouse..
basically 100,50,25,12,6,3,1 ... 6 mice needed.
100 bottles, divide into 2 groups, feed mouse...
Separate poisoned bottles into 2 groups feed mouse..
basically 100,50,25,12,6,3,1 ... 6 mice needed.
Hint: Look at the number of possible outcomes. In this case, each of the 10 mice can either live or die. That gives us 2^10 = 1024 possible outcomes. We can only encounter 1000 possible initial configurations of bottles. Is there a way to set it up so that each of the 1000 possible outcomes maps to an initial configuration?