How can he label ALL of the crates correctly?
TinTin is on an island and there are three crates of fruit that have washed up in front of him. One crate contains only apples. One crate contains only oranges. The other crate contains both apples and oranges.
Each crate is labeled. One reads ‘apples’, one reads ‘oranges’, and one reads ‘apples and oranges’. He know that NONE of the crates have been labeled correctly – they are all wrong.
If he can only take out and look at just one of the pieces of fruit from just one of the crates,
how can he label ALL of the crates correctly?
Take a piece of fruit from the “apples and oranges” crate. If it’s an apple then you know that is the “apples” crate since ALL THE CRATES ARE LABLED INCORRECTLY. This means the crate marked “apples” must be “oranges” and the crate marked “oranges” must be “apples and oranges”.
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