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Can you get the answer to this word game?
There are three boxes. One contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of its box. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?
2 Answers
- William BLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
You open the AO box. and take a fruit.
If it is an Orange, then you know that it is the OO box.
The other two contain two Apples and one Apple and one Orange and are labeled AA and OO.
Since the OO box is incorrectly labeled, you know that it must contain two Apples, otherwise the two Apples would be in the AA box. The OO box contains the Apple and the Orange.
If it is an Apple, then you know that it is the AA box.
The other two contain two Oranges and one Apple and one Orange and are labeled AA and OO.
Since the AA box is incorrectly labeled, you know that it must contain two oranges, otherwise the two Oranges would be in the OO box. The AA box contains the Apple and the Orange.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
label the box fruit
