Interview questions: A question about gold, silver, and a mixed box

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Here are interview questions that my friend, Arthur, shared with me (All credits to him 😊):

Question 1:

Say you’re given 3 closed boxes, one containing gold, the other a silver box, and the last is a box which contains a mixture of 50% gold and 50% silver.
It is a rule that all the boxes are labelled incorrectly. How many boxes must you open before you can deduce what’s inside the boxes?


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