document.write( "Question 134446: There are three bins of marbles. They are labeled white, black, and mixed. Each bin is incorrectly labeled. You cannot see inside the bins. How can you draw one marble from one bin and then correctly label all the bins? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #98365 by Edwin McCravy(20060)\"\" \"About 
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document.write( "Draw one from the bin labeled \"mixed\".  Re-label it with that same color.\r\n" );
document.write( "Relabel the bin originally labeled with that color with the opposite color,\r\n" );
document.write( "and re-label the remaining bin \"mixed\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "Explanation:\r\n" );
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document.write( "You know that the bin labeled \"mixed\" contains only marbles of the\r\n" );
document.write( "same color, since it's incorrectly labeled.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "So draw one marble from the bin labeled \"mixed\".  If it is white then\r\n" );
document.write( "it contains only white marbles, so re-label it correctly as \"white\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the bin originally labeled \"black\" cannot contain only black \r\n" );
document.write( "marbles since it is labeled incorrectly.  And it certainly can't \r\n" );
document.write( "contain only white marbles because you have just finished correctly \r\n" );
document.write( "re-labeling the all-white bin!  So it can only be the bin with mixed \r\n" );
document.write( "colored marbles. \r\n" );
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document.write( "So the remaining bin, which was originally labeled \"black\" contains\r\n" );
document.write( "only white marbles.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It's exactly the same explanation if you drew a black marble, except \r\n" );
document.write( "you interchange the words \"white\" and \"black\".\r\n" );
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