Alright, I have a nice little riddle for all of you.
There are 3 boxes. One contains Apples, one contains Oranges and the 3rd contains a mixture of Apples and Oranges. They are all labelled with the labels 'Apples', 'Oranges' and 'Apples & Oranges'.
However, all the labels are wrong. That is, none of the boxes contain what is actually written on the box. The box that contains Apples does not have the label 'Apples', the box that contains Oranges does not have the label 'Oranges' and the box that contains Apples and Oranges does not have the label 'Apples and Oranges'.
Your task is simple. What is the least number of fruits that must be picked to determine which of the boxes contain which?
Post your answers in the comments section.
Also, if there are already some comments, you know you would be cheating by looking at them..:)
Good Luck!!!
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isn't that simple enough ;)
ReplyDeleteLets assume i made my first pick from the box labelled "apple and orange" and we get an apple
ReplyDeleteSo we can conclude it will contain only apples since its stated no boxes are labelled correctly
Noe the second box which labelled "oranges" wont contain neither orange nor apple. so it will be a mixture of both apple and orange.
And the third box guess is just a piece of cake.
Niyas