Problem #PRU-64573

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Problem

Author: A.V. Khachaturyan

The mum baked some pies – three with peach, three with kiwi and one with blackberries – and laid them on the dish in a circle (see the picture). Then she put the dish in a microwave to warm it up. All of the pies look the same. Maria knows how they lie on the dish but does not know how the dish turned in the microwave. She wants to eat a pie with blackberries, but she doesn’t want any of the others because she doesn’t like their taste. How can Maria surely achieve this by biting as few tasteless pies as possible?