QED Night

The Gilded Draw

Brain teaserSkill: Insight
Three identical boxes sit on a table. One contains two gold coins, another contains two silver coins, and the third contains one gold coin and one silver coin. You choose one of the three boxes uniformly at random. Without seeing its contents, you shake it and draw one of its two coins at random. The coin you draw is gold. Given this new information, what is the probability that the coin still inside the chosen box is also gold?

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What is the probability that the remaining coin is gold?

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