An offer you can’t refuse Puzzle-Asked in Amazon interviews.

Question:

Which offer is better?

1) You are to make a statement. If the statement is true, you get exactly $10. If the statement is false, you get either less than or more than $10 but not exactly $10.
2) You are to make a statement. Regardless of whether the statement is true or false, you get more than $10.

Solution: Offer 1

You should take offer #1, because you can guarantee yourself an arbitrarily large amount of money, simply by using the following as your statement:
 “I will receive neither $10 nor $1000.”
 If we assume the statement is true, this leads to a contradiction because you would receive $10, by the rules.
 If we assume the statement is false, then to satisfy the falsity of the statement, you must receive either $10 or $1000. But since you cannot receive $10 if the statement is false, you must receive $1000.
 Of course you can use any amount in place of “$1000.”

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