If jar a is selected you have 100 chance of selecting a red marble.
Marble jars riddle.
One of the marbles was supposed to be black and one was supposed to be blue.
Let p blue probability of picking a blue marble.
Put one red marble in one jar a and the remainder in the other jar b.
You have 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles other wise identical.
Given that the number of red and blue marbles are the same you would tend to think that the odds are 50 50.
Seems tricky at first right.
He gives you 50 black marbles 50 white marbles and 2 empty bowls and instructs you to divide the 100 marbles into the two bowls.
If jar b is selected you have 49 99 chance of selecting a red marble.
Jar 1 contains 1 blue marble and jar 2 contains 99 blue marbles and 100 red marbles.
The king placed 2 marbles in a jar that was glued to a table.
Answer to riddle 68.
Yeah i probably shouldn t have even bothered with the picture.
You would still end up with a chance of 50.
If the first marble you pulled out from the box labeled both is a white marble then you solve the problem in the same general way.
1 2 chance we pick jar a 50 50 chance we pick a red marble 1 2 chance we pick jar b 0 50 chance we pick a red marble.
In any case on to the riddle.
The emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game.
And the probability of picking a red marble from any jar is the number of red marbles in the jar over the total number of marbles in the jar.
You can divide them however you want as long as all the marbles are in the bowls.
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A king decided to let a prisoner try to escape the prison with his life.
2 8 of them are exactly the same weight.
If we select jar a then getting a red marble is guaranteed but it will also be guaranteed if there is only one red marble in that jar then also the probability of getting a red marble from jar a is 1 1 1.
1 you have 9 marbles as seen.
You would try different combinations such as 25 of each colored marble in a jar or putting all red marbles in one jar and all the blue in the other.
You would try different combinations such as 25 of each colored marble in a jar or putting all red marbles in one jar and all the blue in the other.
This will give you just about a 75 chance of picking a blue marble.
3 you are allowed to use set the scale twice in total.
With a 50 chance of selecting jar a and a 50 chance of selecting jar b the odds become 50 50 49 99 74 7474 or 148 198.
So now we can place remaining 49 red marbles in jar b so it increases the prob of getting red marbles in jar b.
You are a prisoner sentenced to death.
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The remaining marble is slightly heavier than the others.
Arrangements of red blue marbles.
