You can solve this, can't you user?

Look at this, you can literally run the experiment yourself and look at the evidence.

Its exactly the same problem

You may be good at math, but the question was poorly phrased. If you interpret it the way you did, you're right. If interpreted literally, I am.

How so, sports fan?

You mean like this?

All I did was make the numbers bigger and more obvious, the core problem is identical. You are being asked what the odds are that you randomly chose a specific box, given that you pulled a gold ball out of that box.

Whats the answer to my question by the way?

>It's not asking for the odds from three boxes anymore.
It's always been from three boxes. That is the context of the question, which it clearly refers to. Why would you ignore what the question refers to?

>Essentially, once you've removed a gold ball from one box, the third is eliminated.
So you ARE taking into account what happened before the question. Hypocrite.

Don't misinterpret the problem, or my paraphrase.

Just number the balls. Then magically, it isn't possible to achieve the 50/50 answer.

The question is phrased fine. You are not interpreting the question literally, you are ignoring most of the sentence.