Reference for Terumot 4:9

כֵּיצַד, חֲמִשִּׁים תְּאֵנִים שְׁחוֹרוֹת וַחֲמִשִּׁים לְבָנוֹת, נָפְלָה שְׁחוֹרָה, שְׁחוֹרוֹת אֲסוּרוֹת וְהַלְּבָנוֹת מֻתָּרוֹת. נָפְלָה לְבָנָה, לְבָנוֹת אֲסוּרוֹת וּשְׁחוֹרוֹת מֻתָּרוֹת. בְּשֶׁאֵינוֹ יָדוּעַ מַה נָּפְלָה, מַעֲלוֹת זוֹ אֶת זוֹ. בְּזוֹ רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר מַחְמִיר, וְרַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ מֵקֵל:

How [does Rabbi Akiva decide]? If there were fifty black figs and fifty white, and a black [fig] fell in, the black are forbidden, but the white are permitted; and if a white [fig] fell in, the white are forbidden and the black are permitted. If it is not known what [kind] fell in, then the one [kind] can be counted together with the other. In this [case], Rabbi Eliezer is stringent and Rabbi Yehoshua is lenient.

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