Three Pills From the Doctor

Your doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How much time will have passed by the time you’ve taken all three pills?

One hour. You take the first pill, then wait a half hour and take the second pill, then at the hour mark you take the third and last pill.

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8 Comments on "Three Pills From the Doctor"


Sreenu says
November 16, 2014 @ 09:46

it took one hour…


Hello hello hello hello,? says
April 17, 2019 @ 10:00

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh… 1hour 30mins?WHAT IT IS 0 min. Because it doesn’t say eating I only say take it/ Hold it.


Swaha says
April 19, 2019 @ 13:12

The answer is 1hour because we take one pill at the same time then second after waiting half hour then the last pill 1hour


Nick says
July 29, 2019 @ 16:12

I don’t believe this can be accurately answered unless you mention the time you took your first pill. If the doctor gives you the pills at 5 pm and you take your first pill at 530 (which is why I came up with 1.5 hours) then the answer is 1.5. I don’t know why you would necessarily wait 30 minutes to take the first pill, but if you told me you take the first one right away I would come up 1 hour. It also doesn’t specify when the clock started. It doesn’t say the clock starts from the moment you take your first pill


Hayley Kruger says
September 6, 2019 @ 18:29

I agree, it should have at least said what time you took the first pill.


Mj says
December 15, 2020 @ 10:16

Why would it not be 3 hours? It says every HALF hour and not every 30 minutes


Navya says
January 16, 2021 @ 23:50

It is 1 hour because if 1 tablet is taken by 30 min then it is 1 hour .
for example :-
If it is now 3 o clock we need to take the tablet after 30 min at 3.30 one tablet is done so next is we need to take again after at 4.00 2nd tablet done next we need to take again at 4.30 third tablet done so now let us see howw much time we took 3.30,4.00, 4.30 =1 hour


toluwase says
March 3, 2021 @ 02:48

one hour


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