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Six hundred coins (Posted on 2006-12-22) Difficulty: 2 of 5
I created six hundred coins. I tell you that each is red on one side, but may be red or blue on the other side. I flip each coin, and show you the resulting colors. You count 400 red and 200 blue. What is your best estimate of the number of coins that are red on both sides?

I flipped all the same coins again, and you count 350 red and 250 blue. How should you modify your estimate?

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Good One!! | Comment 10 of 13 |
that puzzle was pretty good.
  Posted by alex on 2007-04-11 10:57:41
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