Friday Maths Problem Options

[MonkeyFiend]

I'm bored, so I thought I'd annoy you with a mathematical puzzle...a nice simple one though.....

Monkeyfiend has 3 boxes: 1,2 & 3.

In one of the boxes is £1000000, the others contain something rubbish. You pick a box, say box No.1 and MonkeyFiend (who knows whats in each of the boxes), opens another box, say box 3, which contains a rubbish prize. Monkeyfiend then says do you want to pick box No.2 or stay with your original choice of box 1?

Which should you do and why?

[Magik5]

ive seen 21 so i no the answer. i cant quite remember it tho

you stick with the one youve chosen, because the odds have changed (for you having the right box) to 66% because the one monkey opened has now been disgarded.

[MonkeyFiend]

FAIL

[Magik5]

dvds round gfs, so cant chk

[=R6= Raile]

how long did monkeyfiend stare at the box before he opened it?

[Magik5]

[fido77]

u choose the #2 box if and only if the #1 box contained rubbish

[=R6= Raile]

is fido's the real answer? cuz it sounds like it could be, but also you may have just worded the OP wrong.
plus if that's the answer.... URLAME

[fido77]

i doubt its the answer. it doesn't say if u saw what was in box 1 when u picked it the first time.

[Magik5]

you havent seen inside the boxes yet, youve just picked one to be opened

[MonkeyFiend]

nope the original is phrased corretly I believe: you pick a box (box 1), you don't see it's contents. I show you the contents of the 3rd box (which is rubbish) - so do you stay with your first choice (box 1) or change to the remaining box (box 2)

[Foxx_in_Socks]

I know the answer!!! muahahahah

[Magik6]

You punch monkey in the face, steal both boxes and tell him to stop playing homo mind games.

Only to find monkey put rubbish in all the boxes lol

[=R6= Raile]

mmm the original did not say you pick a box and don't see it's contents, it simply says monkeyfiend knows whats in all the boxes. it doesnt say you cant look before you give monkey your answer

[MonkeyFiend]

Equally I didn't say the boxes explode into a rainbow of badgers - it's not damn word trickery, it a maths problem

[Magik6]

You never said we acctually pick box, just that as an example we take box one, but now i know what is in box 3. So if I took box 3 when the real option came along, allowed you to open box 1 and realise there is rubbish in both, so i would then swap my box for box number two and get my money???????

Prob wront but its the only thing i can think off

[fido77]

((p=>q)&(q=>r))=>(p=>r) = +++++++++++++++++++++++++[>++>+++>++++>+++++<<<<-]+++++++++++++++++++++++++>>>>----.----------.++++++.<<<<+++++++.>>>---.>---.<++++.<<<.>>>++.------.>+++++++.<<<<+...

there is a 50% chance that the money is in box 1 so it doesn't matter which box you choose.

[MonkeyFiend]

I just don't see how a uniform (t-suf) subsitution equation ((p=>q)&(q=>r))=>(p=>r) can possibly = that I am gay

50% is also wrong

[=R6= Raile]

if it isn't some trickery of words.. and you think it's NOT 50%, then I guess it depends on how you look at it.
The second the box #3 is revealed, and you are given a second chance to pick the right box, the odds reset themselves. you then have a 1 in 2 chance of picking the right box...

[MonkeyFiend]

fraid not, old chap