Expedia Group interview question

One of the interviews had brain teasers: Given a rectangle with one rectangular piece missing, split it into two equal halves. can only use single straight cut to accomplish this; Given 4 bottles of pills where 3 bottles contain pills of same weight and 4th bottle has pills that weight less, find the bottle with "defective" pills using the scale only once..

Interview Answer

Anonymous

24 Sept 2014

Cut through the centers of the rectangles.