SOLUTION: You have three boxes, one containing 1000 grapes, one containing 1000 grapes and 500 olives. The boxes were labelsed for their content, but someone has switched the labels so that

Question 144568: You have three boxes, one containing 1000 grapes, one containing 1000 grapes and 500 olives. The boxes were labelsed for their content, but someone has switched the labels so that every box is now incorrectly labeled. You are allowed to take one item at a time out of the box, without looking inside, and by this process of sampling, you are to determine the contents of all three boxes. What is the smallest number of drawings needed to do this?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You have three boxes, one containing 1000 grapes, one containing 1000 grapes and 500 olives.
What does the 3rd box contain? How can anyone help if you don't state the problem correctly?
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