Two Jars and 100 marbles

this is an easy one,

you have 2 jars & 100 marbles, 50 red and 50 blue.

you have to place the marbles into the jars such that you maximise the likelihood that you pick out a red marble.

i can get almost 3/4 or 75% likelihood.

1 red marble in jar 1 and the rest in jar 2 gives about 3/4 chance...74/99 to be precise

put x red marbles in jar 1 along with y black ones.

With chance 1/2 you pick a marble from jar 1, with chance x/x+y this is a red marble.

With chance 1/2 you pick a marble from jar 2, with chance 50-x/100-x-y this is a red marble.

1/2*(x/x+y + 50-x/100-x-y) = ugly

I have not the time to write ugly out, to differentiate to x and y and to see of they happen to have a common zero.

Originally posted by kcams
this is an easy one,

you have 2 jars & 100 marbles, 50 red and 50 blue.

you have to place the marbles into the jars such that you maximise the likelihood that you pick out a red marble.

i can get almost 3/4 or 75% likelihood.

Originally posted by kcams
this is an easy one,

you have 2 jars & 100 marbles, 50 red and 50 blue.

you have to place the marbles into the jars such that you maximise the likelihood that you pick out a red marble.

i can get almost 3/4 or 75% likelihood.

Originally posted by cheskmate
The statement of your puzzle is incomplete. What , wherefrom and how do you pick out has to be specified.

Originally posted by kcams
this is an easy one,

you have 2 jars & 100 marbles, 50 red and 50 blue.

you have to place the marbles into the jars such that you maximise the likelihood that you pick out a red marble.

i can get almost 3/4 or 75% likelihood.

Originally posted by kcams
you pick the jar and marble at random.

Originally posted by ranjan sinha
put 1 red marble in one jar and put all the rest in the other. The probability of picking a red marble would be;
(1+49/50)/2 = 74.99%....This is the maximum that can be achieved.
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how?....

There's a 50% chance you'll pick the jar with the red marble. If you pick this jar, you'll definitely get a red marble. (1/2)

If you don't pick that jar, then you'll have a 49/100 chance of getting a red marble.

Therefore the chance of getting a red marble is 1/2 + 1/2 * 49/100 = 100/200 + 49/200 = 149/200.

expression was to be(1+(49/100))/2

Originally posted by muktadir

Originally posted by coolwarrior
The second box contains 99 marbles, out of which 49 are red. Hence actually it will obviously be -
(1+49/99)/2 = 74.99%...

Originally posted by muktadir

Originally posted by ranjan sinha
It was a case of error due to hurried thinking and typing. Coolwarrior has already posted the correct expression. Thankx.

Originally posted by TheMaster37
*cough* In my days we were taught to simplify expressions like that.

Correct me if i'm wrong but it's not 74.99%

My calculation say it's 74/99 = 74.74 % approximately.