top button
Flag Notify
    Connect to us
      Site Registration

Site Registration

Determine what each of the boxes contains ?

+1 vote
270 views

Ravi has three boxes with fruits in his barn: one box with apples, one box with pears, and one box with both apples and pears. The boxes have labels that describe the contents, but none of these labels is on the right box.How can Ravi determine what each of the boxes contains, by taking only one piece of fruit from one box?

posted Apr 29, 2014 by anonymous

Share this puzzle
Facebook Share Button Twitter Share Button LinkedIn Share Button

1 Answer

0 votes

From the box named "mixture" , he can pick out a fruit and find what it contains.

Case 1: Say he picked out apple from it, then the box named pair would contain mixture (as it cannot contain pair because the box is named wrong) and the one named apple would contain pair.

Case 2: If he picked a pair from it, the box named apple would be mixture, and the one named pair would contain apple.

answer Apr 29, 2014 by Priyaa Trippayar Sahasranaman



Similar Puzzles
+5 votes

A light bulb is hanging in a room. Outside of the room, there are three switches, of which only one is connected to the lamp. In the starting situation, all switches are 'off' and the bulb is not lit.If it is allowed to check in the room only once to see if the bulb is lit or not (this is not visible from the outside), how can you determine with which of the three switches the light bulb can be switched on?

+1 vote

You have a silver pot and a golden pot. One of these pots contains a treasure and the other one is empty. Assume that you can determine from the text prints which pot contains the treasure.

The text prints on the pots are the following:
The silver pot: "This pot is empty."
The golden pot: "Exactly one of these texts is true."

Which pot contains the treasure?

0 votes

You have 21 jars with you. Out of them, 7 are filled with water, 7 are half-full with water and 7 are empty.
How will you distribute the jars among three people such that each one of them gets the equal number of jars and equal amount of water?

+1 vote

A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold.
What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?

0 votes

There are 3 boxes.
One of the Box contains gold
and the other two are empty.
A Printed message contains in each Box.
One of the message is true
and the other two are lies.

The 1st box says "Gold is not here"
The 2nd box says "Gold is not here"
The 3rd box says "Gold is in the second box".
Which box has the Gold?

...