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Three Boxes With Two Balls

The first box has two red balls. The second box has two blue balls. The third box has a red and a blue ball. 

Boxes are labeled but all labels are wrong! 

You are allowed to open one box, pick one ball at random, see its colour and put it back into the box, without seeing the colour of the other ball. How many such operations are necessary to correctly label the boxes?

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