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100 Balls, 2 Jars

You have 2 jars, 50 red balls, and 50 blue balls. You need to put all the balls into the jars.

Someone is going to enter the room, randomly select a jar, and randomly select a ball from that jar.
You would like to maximize the probability of them selecting a red ball. So, for example, if you put 25 red balls in each jar and 25 blue balls in each jar, the probability of them selecting a red ball is 50%.

How can you maximize the probability of them selecting a red ball?

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folcklord about 1 month ago
kuleshs about 1 month ago
bigbadbang 4 months ago

The explanation is the answer and its correct. However, there is no real explanation (proof) and from my calculation its quite hard!

Good one though!

kzer95 8 months ago

clever

ankurpshah about 1 year ago

Good one

electroduction about 1 year ago

Good one… I think most would assume that you would need to fill the jars equally, it never even occurred to me otherwise.

city_slick about 1 year ago

nice one