Question

An old puzzle,but worth asking:
There are three boxes. One has apples, one has oranges and the other has apples and oranges. The boxes are labeled wrong so that no label is correct. Tara opens just one box, and without looking in the box, takes out one piece of fruit. She looks at the fruit and immediately labels all the boxes correctly. Which box did she open and how did she know?

Answer 1

cn i tell the ans?

Answer 2

u know!
tell in 5 minutes, so that others can try....

Answer 3

apples and oranges

Answer 4

apples and oranges

Answer 5

correct..

Answer 6

james, can u explain ?

Answer 7

Apples and oranges yess

Answer 8

the apples and oranges had a baby, making it an appange. you wouldn't find an appange in the boxes with just oranges or apples.

Answer 9

You know that since none of the labels are correct the box must either contain only apples or only oranges

Answer 10

appange....interesting....

Answer 11

if she picked apple. then

"ao" is a
"o" must be different

since a is already taken it must be ao

a must be o

Answer 12

if she picked orange. then
"ao" is o
a must be different

since o is already taken it must be ao

Answer 13

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornishdave/5574969532/

Answer 14

photoshopped,maybe

Answer 15

Is the answer given?

Answer 16

yup, with explanation.....

Answer 17

i'll post another one for u soon.

Answer 18

Can I try?

Answer 19

sure, but don't expect medal, its already given....

Answer 20

Ok

Answer 21

I think she must open the box that is labelled apple and orange

Answer 22

thats right, how ?

Answer 23

yep

Answer 24

Because in that box it can either have apple or mango only

Answer 25

orange

Answer 26

As all the labels are incorrect

Answer 27

right?

Answer 28

thats correct logic.

Answer 29

Ok....... but I was late.

Answer 30

i m gonna new and simpler one soon.

Answer 31

*post new

Answer 32

ok