Question

a particular booth in a school festival has different fruits in separate boxes the challenge is to guess the number of fruits in the 5th box and the person who correctly guesses the number takes home the five boxes if there are two apples in the first box five oranges in the second box 10 mangoes in the third box and 17 bananas in the fourth box how many fruits are there in the 5th box

Answer 1

Answer:

There are 3 boxes: 1st one is labelled MIXED, 2nd is Oranges and 3rd is labelled Apples.

IMPORTANT NOTE: all boxes are incorrectly labelled. Which means box that reads Apples may contain oranges or a combo, box that reads Oranges may contain apples or a combo and the box that reads MIXED may contain oranges or apples.

Now, pick a fruit from the 1st box labelled MIXED…. You picked an apple (feel free to eat it). The remaining 2 boxes read Oranges and Apples, since no other name is mentioned. As all the boxes are incorrectly labelled, off the remaining 2 boxes, the one that reads Oranges can only contain a combo or just apples and the one that reads Apples can only be oranges or a combo. But since you already picked Apples from the MIXED box, that 1st box now becomes Apples. And the 2nd box (Oranges) now cannot contain just apples and neither can it contain oranges as all labels are supposed to be incorrect, therefore the 2nd box must contain a combo and can be labelled MIXED. The 3rd box can then only contain Oranges and can be labelled so.

New labels: 1st – Apples, 2nd – Mixed, 3rd – Oranges.

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