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Bertrand's box, a gold coin appears

Three boxes each hold two coins: one box has two gold coins, one has two silver, and one has one gold and one silver. You pick a box at random, then draw one coin at random from it. It is gold.

What is the probability that the other coin in that same box is also gold?

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The tempting answer "it must be one of the two mixed-or-gold boxes, so 12\tfrac12" ignores that a gold-gold box is twice as likely to have handed you a gold coin. Weight by that likelihood.

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