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If the car is behind door 1, the host can open either door 2 or door 3, so the probability that the car is behind door 1 and the host opens door 3 is 1 / 3 × 1 / 2 = 1 / 6 . If the car is behind door 2 – with the player having picked door 1 – the host must open door 3, such the probability that the car is behind door ...
B. 3 + 3 + 8 = 14. In case 'A', there is no 'eldest child': two children are aged six (although one could be a few minutes or around 9 to 12 months older and they still both be 6). Therefore, when told that one child is the eldest, the census-taker concludes that the correct solution is 'B'. [3]
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a logic puzzle so called by American philosopher and logician George Boolos and published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996. [1] [2] Boolos' article includes multiple ways of solving the problem.
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Player 2 first opens door 2. If the keys are behind the door, the player is successful. If the goat was behind the door, the player next opens door 3; whereas if the car was behind the door, the player next opens door 1. In the six possible distributions of car, keys and goat behind the three doors, the players open the following doors (in the ...
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The misdirection in this riddle is in the second half of the description, where unrelated amounts are added together and the person to whom the riddle is posed assumes those amounts should add up to 30, and is then surprised when they do not — there is, in fact, no reason why the (10 − 1) × 3 + 2 = 29 sum should add up to 30.
As the warden says B will be executed, it is either because C will be pardoned ( 1 / 3 chance), or A will be pardoned ( 1 / 3 chance) and the coin to decide whether to name B or C the warden flipped came up B ( 1 / 2 chance; for an overall 1 / 2 × 1 / 3 = 1 / 6 chance B was named because A will be ...