Apple & Pear riddle
Jacob has three boxes with fruits in his barn: one box with apples, one box with pears, and one box with both apples and pears. The boxes have labels that describe the contents, but none of these labels is on the right box.
How can Jacob determine what each of the boxes contains, by taking only one piece of fruit from one box?
Jacob takes a piece of fruit from the box with the labels ‘Apples and Pears‘.
If it is an apple, then the label ‘Apples’ belong to this box.
The box that said ‘Apples’, then of course shouldn’t be labeled ‘Apples and Pears‘, because that would mean that the box with ‘Pears’ would have been labeled correctly, and this is contradictory to the fact that none of the labels was correct.
On the box with the label ‘Appels’ should be the label ‘Pears’.
If Jacob would have taken a pear, just replace ‘Apples’ with ‘Pears’ in the above solution
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