If You Have 2 Jars With 1000 Blue Marbles

We calculate the probability of obtaining a red a blue and a green marbles.

If you have 2 jars with 1000 blue marbles. One or more comments have been removed. You have two jars 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles. 10 green and 990 white. You have 2 jars 10 red marbles 40 blue marbles.

3 you are allowed to use set the scale twice in total. 900 blue and 100 white jar 3. Additionally the other jar will have 1000 x blue marbles in it. How would you maximize the chance of drawing a red marble.

Total 100 marbles out of which 50 are red and 50 are blue coloured. You need to place all the marbles into the jars such that when you blindly pick one marble out of one jar you maximize the chances that it will be red. You have two jars and hundred marbles. 4 each bucket has enough room for multiple marbles.

What is the probability of doing so. Probability of selecting any one jar is 1 2. You must place all 100 marbles in the jars. One of the jars is chosen at random and then one marble will be chosen from that jar at random.

Then 1 marble will be withdrawn from that jar at random. For jar 1 we have that. Jar 1 300 red and 700 white. When picking you ll first randomly pick a jar and then randomly pick a marble out of that jar.

All 100 marbles should be placed in the jars. If you still don t believe it go buy 2000 marbles and try it yourself. So the ratio of blue to red in one jar is the inverse of the other. Jar 3 500 green and 500 white.

Flag as inappropriate flag as inappropriate. As long as you have the same number of marbles in each side the heavy marble has just enough weight to tip the scale to its side. You have three jars containing marbles as follows. When picking you ll first randomly pick a jar and then randomly pick a marble out of that jar.

Interview candidate on jan 2 2013. One of the jars will be chosen at random. I don t agree with your solution. We conclude that each jars have 1000 marbles.

When picking you ll first randomly pick a jar and then randomly pick a marble out of that jar you can arrange the marbles however you like but each marble must be in a jar. You have 3 jars containing marbles as follows. You need to place all the marbles into the jars such that when you blindly pick one marble out of one jar you maximize the chances that it will be red. You have two jars 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles.

You can decide how many and what marbles to be placed in each of the jars. Each jar can hold 100 marbles. Seems tricky at first right. You can arrange the marbles however you like but each marble must be in.

Fifty of the marbles are red and fifty are blue. Jar 2 20 blue and 980 white. Now we want to place these 100 marbles in 2 jars to maximize the probability of red marble pick. For jar 2 we have that.

You have 50 red marbles 50 blue marbles and 2 jars. 600 red and 400 white jar 2.