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Problem - 4679

$\textbf{Poisonous Wine}$

A king has $1000$ bottles of expensive wine. One assassin is just able to poison one bottle of wine before being killed. The king does not want to discard all the bottles, so he decides to force some prisoners to taste these wines in order to find out the poisonous one. While he is ruthless, the king is also intelligent. He figures that it is not necessary to use $1000$ prisoners because it is known that this type poison will take effect and kill an in-taker after $24$ hours. Is it possible for the king to use no more than $10$ prisoners to identify the poisonous bottle?


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