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The distribution box contains silver
The construction of the Boy or Girl paradox is similar, essentially adding a fourth box with a gold coin and a silver coin. Its answer is controversial, based on how one assumes the "drawer" was chosen.OverviewBertrand's box paradox is a in elementary. It was first posed by in his 1889 work. There are three boxes: 1. a. The problem can be reframed by describing the boxes as each having one drawer on each of two sides. Each drawer contains a coin. One box has a gold coin on each side (GG), one a silver coin on each side (SS), and the oth.