Question

There are three boxes, one contains apples, another contains oranges and the last one containsboth apples and oranges. All three are known to be incorrectly labelled. If you are permittedto open just one box and then pull out and inspect only one fruit, which box would you opento determine the contents of all three boxes?Key:exp:(a) the box labelled apples (b) the box labelled apples and oranges(c) the box labelled 'oranges' (d) cannot be determined

Answer 1

(b) the box labeled apples and oranges because in this box both of the contents are in this box so this way you wouldn't have to open the other 2 boxes because you would already know what was in the other 2 boxes.☺