Recent content by Balfo

Thanks for your help

Thanks for the effort arildno, if you could just explain again the part which I quoted, i do understand the math you used to get 5/9 but I don't really understand the logic behind it, Balfo

Thanks, seems that you wrote out all the outcomes, but something is still not clear to me, in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=BqXToEU5eDY , it's said that for the original problem the result would be 2/3 even if we put a 100 gold coins in the first box, but if we tried to write down every...

So i did some thinking, I don't know if I'm right or not but I think the answer to my own question is 50% , but i did not know how to calculate the possibilities that we will get a silver coin after we withdrew the first coin and it was silver, the question goes for the same four boxes, thanks...

will do, I'll try :)

Thank you both for answering, yes Diffy, it helps, thanks again :) , however I do have another question, how could we calculate the possibilities if we changed the number of coins in some boxes, let's say we have a box with two golden coins, a box with 3 silver coins , and two boxes that...

Hi, I have a question about the famous Bertrand's box paradox. In this puzzle there are three boxes: a box containing two gold coins, a box with two silver coins, and a box with one of each. After choosing a box at random and withdrawing one coin at random that happens to be a gold coin, the...