You are on a island and there are three crates of fruit that have washed up in front of you. One crate contains only apples, one crate only contains oranges and the other crate contains both apples and oranges.
Each crate is labled. One reads apples, one reads oranges and one reads apples and oranges. You know that none of the crates have been labeled correctly, they are all wrong.
If you can only take out and look at just one of the pieces of fruit from just one of the crates, how can you lable all the crates correctly?
2007-10-29 20:53:28 · 10 answers · asked by collctor2 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
You must take 1 from the box marked Apple and Orange. What you pull out will be that box. eg apple = apple. Knowing the other 2 are wrong also means box marked orange will be Orange & apple, and the one marked Apple will be Orange.
2007-10-29 21:08:05 · answer #1 · answered by Juzzy 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are TWO possible outcomes. I have used a simplified table to illustrate this.
[] = crate marking
() = contents
Scenario 1:
[Oranges] = (Apples)
[Oranges&Apples] = (Oranges)
[Apples] = (Oranges & Apples)
Scenario 2:
[Oranges] = (Oranges & Apples)
[Oranges&Apples] = (Apples)
[Apples] = (Oranges)
In both cases, the crate marked [Oranges & Apples] is either Oranges OR Apples.
If you open this crate first, and take out an Orange, then it's Scenario 1.
If you open this crate first, and take out an Apple, then it's Scenario 2.
2007-10-30 06:11:49 · answer #2 · answered by Rob K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you open the box marked apples and if you get an apple its actually the apples and oranges box. if its an orange its actually the oranges box. From there you can work out what the other two are.
2007-10-30 06:34:32 · answer #3 · answered by hemsty 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
open the apple & orange one, if an apple comes out then thats the apple box. the box marked apple will be the orange box and the box marked orange will be apple & orange
2007-10-30 05:12:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hmm...
open any box at random..
eg. open the one reads orange.. if it is an apple only, that means the other 2 left are orange and apple with orange...
so,label the one we just opened with apple only.
then left 2 more crates... threfore the one that reads apple will contains apple with orange... and the one reads apple and orange will have an apple...
prob solved.....
2007-10-30 04:31:42 · answer #5 · answered by yen 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Y not v label all three apple & oranges!!
2007-10-30 04:40:13 · answer #6 · answered by *♥sugar♥* 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
how can you say that they're all labeled wrong if you dont know what's inside the crates?
2007-10-30 04:04:17 · answer #7 · answered by ahl06 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I PUT ALL IN ONE CRATE& I LABEL IT MIXING FRUIT
2007-10-30 05:22:52 · answer #8 · answered by sulieman 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
don't know that you can - with just one from each box
2007-10-30 03:59:24 · answer #9 · answered by tom4bucs 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
do it one by one
classify
2007-10-30 04:55:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋