Chapter 3, Problem 3.46P

Three prisoners are informed by their jailer that one of them has been chosen at random to be executed and the other two are to be freed Prisoner A asks the jailer to tell him privately which of his fellow prisoners will be set free, claiming that there would be no harm in divulging this information because he already knows that at east one of the two will go free. The jailer refuses to answer the question, pointing out that If A knew which of his fellow prisoners were to be set free, then his own probability of being executed would rise from $\frac{1}{3}$ to $\frac{1}{2}$ because he would then be one of two prisoners. What do you think of the jailer’s reasoning?