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Rajaendra
May 25, 2012, 09:57 AM
A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet -18blue,32red,and 25 yellow the lights are out and it is totally dark.In spite of the darkness.she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove.She takes out an item out of the close only if she is sure that if it is a glove how many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?

a)50
b)8
c)60
d)42

Curlyben
May 25, 2012, 10:20 AM
What do YOU think ?

rrett44556
May 25, 2012, 10:22 AM
Its either d or a

ebaines
May 25, 2012, 11:04 AM
The answer is "none of the above." If there are 32 red gloves and 25 yellow gloves it's possible she could pull all the reds and yellows without getting a single blue - that would be 57 gloves. At this point there are only blues left. So she is guarranted to get a blue pair by taking two more gloves. So the total is 32+ 25 + 2 = 59.

I have a feeling that you mistyped the problem, as it seems the hats have nothing to do with anything.