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  • Sep 23, 2010, 04:27 PM
    monro
    Matching socks
    You have 5 blue socks and 5 brown socks, how many socks do you have to pull from your drawer to guarantee a match.( without looking)
  • Sep 24, 2010, 07:59 AM
    ebaines

    Well, think it through. Suppose you pull the first sock and it's blue. Then you pull the next sock - if it's blue then you have a pair on the 2nd draw and you're done, but if it's brown you don't have a pair yet and so you pull another sock. What happens when you draw that 3rd sock?

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