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There are 3 baskets. one of them have apples, one has oranges only and the other has mixture of apples and oranges. The labels on their baskets always lie. (i.e. if the label says oranges, you are sure that it doesn�t have oranges only,it could be a mixture) The task is to pick one basket and pick only one fruit from it and then correctly label all the three baskets.

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Wafa  (15 years ago)

First take the basket labelled mixture---->if it contains Apple(...then Orange labelled contains-->mixture...Apple labelled contains-->Orange...)else it contains Orange(...then Orange labelled contains-->Apple...Apple labelled contains-->mixture...)

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Sanal Jose  (15 years ago)

Pick any basket. Pick a fruit from it. It will either be an orange or an apple. If you get a fruit from a basket labelled by its name, this basket is sure to contain the MIXTURE. Relabel it as mixture. Now there are two baskets remaining. One with label MIXTURE and other with that of a fruit(say, ORAANGE). Since the second label is wrong and also since it doesnot contain the mixture, relabel it as one containing other fruit(APPLE). The remaining can be easily labelled, if you got two right.

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KUMAR VIVEK  (9 years ago)

let assume the box1 as apple and box2 as orange and box3 as apple+orange.
1. if i get apples from box3, i.e. apples+oranges
then orange+apple -----> apple
orange -----> apple+orange [because apple is already taken]
apple -----> orange [i.e, last option]
2. if i get orange from box3, i.e. apples+oranges
then orange+apple -----> orange
apple -----> apple+orange [because orange is already taken]
orange -----> apple [i.e, last option]

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