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Friday, July 31, 2009

Today's Brain Teaser.......

Three closed boxes have either white marbles, black marbles or both, and they are labeled white, black and both. However, you're told that each of the labels is wrong. You may reach into one of the boxes and pull out only one marble. Which box should you remove a marble from to determine the contents of all three boxes?
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3 comments:

Bobbo said...

White?

Jim (Jimbo) (Jing) said...

The one labeled both. Since you know it's labeled incorrectly, it must have all black marbles or all white marbles. After you determine what it contains, you can identify the other two boxes by the process of elimination.

Bobbo said...

makes sense