You have 3 jars that are all mislabeled.
Three jars of marbles riddle.
One contains red marbles one contains black and one contains a mixture of both but we don t know which is which.
To do this put 3 marbles in each side 3 left 3 right 3 unused if the scale tips to a side we know that group of 3 has the heavy marble.
The jar you are open may contain one fruit or two fruit.
You love candy and you are given 3 opaque jars which contain candies that are either blue or pink.
The puzzle goes like this.
Let p blue probability of picking a blue marble.
You are allowed to pick as many fruits as you want from each jar to fix the labels on the jars.
This problem is also called jelly beans problem.
If you move one marble from rm to bm the number of marbles in bm will become twice the number of marbles read more.
You have three jars that are all mislabeled.
The king placed 2 marbles in a jar that was glued to a table.
We first put marbles in groups of 3.
Three closed boxes have either white marbles black marbles or both and they are labeled white black and both.
You have two jars of red and blue marbles labelled as rm and bm.
However all three boxes are mislabeled.
One of them is labeled blue one pink and one blue.
But you could able to see only one fruit and you can t find weather the opened jar has one or two fruit.
He proposes a game.
One jar contains apple another contains oranges and the third jar contains a mixture of both apple and oranges.
Thus we end up with 75 chance of picking a blue marble.
If the prisoner could pick the blue marble he would escape the prison with his life.
You may reach into one of the boxes and pull out only one marble.
Your friend shows you two jars one with 100 red marbles in it the other with 100 blue marbles in it.
One of the marbles was supposed to be black and one was supposed to be blue.
A king decided to let a prisoner try to escape the prison with his life.
Jar 1 contains 1 blue marble and jar 2 contains 99 blue marbles and 100 red marbles.
You ll then close your eyes he ll hand you the jar you picked and you ll pick a random marble from that jar.
If it does not tip to a side if it balances we know the unused group of 3 contains the heavy marble.
P blue p jar 1 p blue in jar 1 p jar 2 p blue in jar 2 p blue 0 5 1 0 5 99 199 p blue 0 748.
The jars are labeled red black and mixed but all of the labels are.
Red and blue marbles.
One contains apples another has grapes and the third has a mix of both.
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This is the most commonly asked interview puzzle.