Marble Jars Riddle

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Marble jars riddle.

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. 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. 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.

Answer to riddle 68. Put one red marble in one jar a and the remainder in the other jar b. Yeah i probably shouldn t have even bothered with the picture. 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 would still end up with a chance of 50. 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. The remaining marble is slightly heavier than the others. The king placed 2 marbles in a jar that was glued to a table.

If jar b is selected you have 49 99 chance of selecting a red marble. You can divide them however you want as long as all the marbles are in the bowls. 3 you are allowed to use set the scale twice in total. Riddles good riddles hard riddles iq riddles logic riddles previous riddle i have one you have one.

1 you have 9 marbles as seen. Arrangements of red blue marbles. Put one blue marble in one jar and put the rest of the marbles in the other jar. A king decided to let a prisoner try to escape the prison with his life.

Let p blue probability of picking a blue marble. You have 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles other wise identical. So now we can place remaining 49 red marbles in jar b so it increases the prob of getting red marbles in jar b. Given that the number of red and blue marbles are the same you would tend to think that the odds are 50 50.

The emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. This will give you just about a 75 chance of picking a blue marble. You will be blindfolded and the bowls and marbles will be thoroughly mixed. Jar 1 contains 1 blue marble and jar 2 contains 99 blue marbles and 100 red marbles.

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. 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. 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. If jar a is selected you have 100 chance of selecting a red marble.

In any case on to the riddle. Seems tricky at first right.