The emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game.
Marble jars riddle.
Yeah i probably shouldn t have even bothered with the picture.
You don t know which is which.
1 you have 9 marbles as seen.
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 have 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles other wise identical.
You would still end up with a chance of 50.
Let p blue probability of picking a blue marble.
2 8 of them are exactly the same weight.
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.
Given that the number of red and blue marbles are the same you would tend to think that the odds are 50 50.
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.
Seems tricky at first right.
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Arrangements of red blue marbles.
The king placed 2 marbles in a jar that was glued to a table.
One of the marbles was supposed to be black and one was supposed to be blue.
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.
You will be blindfolded and the bowls and marbles will be thoroughly mixed.
If jar b is selected you have 49 99 chance of selecting a red marble.
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.
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.
A king decided to let a prisoner try to escape the prison with his life.
Answer to riddle 68.
Put one red marble in one jar a and the remainder in the other jar b.
Jar 1 contains 1 blue marble and jar 2 contains 99 blue marbles and 100 red marbles.
Put one blue marble in one jar and put the rest of the marbles in the other jar.
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.
The remaining marble is slightly heavier than the others.
In any case on to the riddle.
You can divide them however you want as long as all the marbles are in the bowls.
You are a prisoner sentenced to death.
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.
