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<TITLE>Alternative to February's Puzzle: 100 Monkey's Redux</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>This deceptively simple sounding puzzle is turning out to be incredibly difficult. -At least for me. And since my objective in presenting these puzzles is to put something out that both novice and expert coders can find interesting... I'm going to offer an alterative puzzle for the random drawing. Here goes:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>There are 3 jars. A black jar, a white jar, and a black-and-white jar. Each jar is filled with either black and/or white balls. The black jar can not contain white balls. Likewise the white jar cannot contain black balls, and the mixed jar cannot contain mixed balls.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>To determine the contents of each jar how many balls must you extract? Explain.</FONT>
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