You have three jars, each labeled incorrectly:

1. Jar 1: Labeled “Red Jelly Beans”
2. Jar 2: Labeled “Blue Jelly Beans”
3. Jar 3: Labeled “Mixed Jelly Beans”

Each jar actually contains one of the following:

• Only red jelly beans.
• Only blue jelly beans.
• A mix of red and blue jelly beans.

Challenge:

Since all the labels are wrong, how many minimum jelly beans would you need to pull out to correctly identify what is in each jar and fix the labels?

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Three guests check into a hotel room. The manager says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the manager realizes the bill should only have been $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 as five one-dollar bills to return to the guests.

On the way to the guests’ room to refund the money, the bellhop realizes that he cannot equally divide the five one-dollar bills among the three guests. As the guests are not aware of the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 back and keep $2 as a tip for himself, and proceeds to do so.

As each guest got $1 back, each guest only paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop kept $2, which when added to the $27, comes to $29. So if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?

(Answser Below)

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