There are 3 baskets. one of them have apples, one has
oranges only and the other has mixture of apples and
oranges. The labels on their baskets always lie. (i.e. if
the label says oranges, you are sure that it doesn't have
oranges only,it could be a mixture) The task is to pick one
basket and pick only one fruit from it and then correctly
label all the three baskets.

Answer Posted / sriharsha s m

Suppose Initial status
Basket label: MIXED APPLE ORANGE

Now pick one item from basket labeled as MIXED, as per the
problem it may be either apple or orange

case 1: If it is orange,then
subcase 1:ORANGE must have either of apple or mixed and
APPLE must have orange
subcase 2:ORANGE must have apple and APPLE must have mixed

simillarly for the case if it is apple

so it requires a minimum of two picks tell correcly......

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