Tropical Forests

In the Tropical Forests, you see 3 fruit baskets. One has 2 apples, one has 2 bananas, and one as 1 banana and 1 apple. You randomly pick a fruit from the box. You find that it is an apple. What is the probability that the remaining fruit in the box is also an apple?

1/1 1/4 1/2 Indeterminate 3/4 0 1/3 2/3

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1 solution

Ashwin Padaki
May 23, 2015

This is based on Bertrand's Box Paradox . See the article for more information.

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