Question

9: In complete darkness, matching pair of socks. The drawer contains a vast plethora of black socks, white socks, grey socks, someone needs to reach into a chaotically arranged sock drawer to pull out a green socks, and red socks. 2 socks of a given color make a matching pair. Given that the individual cannot see into the drawer to ascertain which sock is which color, how a. many must be pulled from the drawer, at minimum, to guarantee at least one matching pair once the socks can be seen? How many must be pulled to guarantee at least two matching pairs? How many must be pulled to guarantee at least one sock of each color, if there are 12 individual b. c. socks of each collor inside the drawer?

Answer 1

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