My sock drawer has 26 blue socks, 13 pink socks, 33 green socks, and 12 red socks, how many socks would I have to pull out in the dark to be sure I had a matching pair?
A man has 53 socks in his drawer. They are 21 identical blue, 15 identical black and 17 identical red. The light went off and he is in complete darkness. How many socks must he take out to be 100% certain that he has a pair of black socks?
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Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are my colors you see after the storm has fled.
What am I?
Cathy has twelve black socks and twelve white socks in her drawer.
In complete darkness, and without looking, how many socks must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match?
A sack contains 4 different colored balls (blue, yellow, red, and pink) of which 14 balls are not blue, 16 balls are not yellow, 24 balls are not red, and 12 balls are not pink. How many balls are in the sack?
A woman who goes to work long before sunrise every morning gets dressed in the dark. In her sock drawer she has 9 black and 12 blue socks. What is the probability that her first pick was a black sock but her second pick was a blue socks?
