You are on a game show in which the host shows you some number of cases, each containing a gold bar or iron bar. The host shows you what is in all of the cases except the last one. If you guess what is in the last one correctly, you get to keep all the gold bars from the cases. If you guess incorrectly you get to keep all the iron bars. What is your guessing strategy?
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Asher Torres
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Josiah Taylor
If all the bars are the same size, just compare the weight of a case containing the gold bar to the one of which the content you don't know, if its equal, its gold, if its lighter, its iron
Brandon Smith
You are not allowed to touch the cases.
Jayden Perez
So it's just a 50/50. What a great game.
Grayson Torres
Wrong.
Ryan Campbell
Let's just say for the sake of argument that it is "50/50" (it isn't). Does this mean your guess doesn't matter?
Jace Morgan
Guess gold unless the amount of iron you know about out-values the gold you know about?
Justin Collins
No, but you're on the right track.
Logan Sanders
Toss a coin to decide, to avoid being tricked by some human psychology tomfoolery
Aiden Gray
Wrong.