Question

There are three chests, each of which contains 100 coins. One chest has 100 gold coins, one has 100 silver coins, and the third has an equal split of 50 gold coins and 50 silver coins.

Each chest is labeled, but all are labeled incorrectly. You are allowed to pick one coin from just one of the chests and after his you must correctly identify each of the three chests.

What should you do?

Answer 1

heya friend
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I have no confident on my answer but I'm trying :--
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There are two possible scenarios:

chest 1: 100 silver coins - chest 2: 100 gold coins - chest 3: 50 of both

chest 1: 50 of both - chest 2: 100 silver coins - chest 3: 100 gold coins

I will pick a coin from the second chest.

hope it helps

Answer 2

as I know density of gold is greater than silver
weight of gold coin is also greater than silver

I'll weight that one coin
then find the difference

hope it helps you
@di