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Rakesh Joshi
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Joined: Feb 24, 2006
Posts: 218
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The pharmacy has an old scale which has only two measuring weights 30 grams and 5 grams. How can you divide 300 grams of powder medicine into 3 groups, one 150 grams, one 100 and the other 50 grams. You can only weigh 3 times.
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Manish Hatwalne
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Joined: Sep 22, 2001
Posts: 2573
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1. Keep 30 gms in one pan (pan A) of the weighing scale/balance and keep 5 gms in another (pan B). Weigh powder in pan B. So effectively you have 25 gms powder now.
2. Keep 25 gms powder & 30 gms in pan A and 5 gms in Pan B. Weigh powder in pan B. You have effectively 50 gms powder in pan B now.
3. Keep 25 gms & 50 gms powder along with 30 gms weight in pan A and 5 gms weight in pan B. Measure 100 gms powder in Pan B now.
This is your 100 gms pack at step 3. Step 2 gave you 50 gms pack. And what is left is 150 gms pwder out of 300 gms total. 
- Manish
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