If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?
2007-06-22 17:33:21 · 16 answers · asked by Josh M 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
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2007-06-22 17:36:35 · answer #1 · answered by Keith...aka Rook 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Five
But if you had already bundled them into matching pairs, you'd just have to take out 2 - one pair. Otherwise, if they were all single socks randomly in a drawer, you'd have to pull out 5 socks, one more than the number of colors. Reason: in the "worst possible" case, you could pull out a black one, then a brown one, then a white one, then a tan one, but the next one you pulled out would have to be a match.
2007-06-22 21:07:55 · answer #2 · answered by PerFecT StrAngEr.. is back 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are very lucky, you can get a matching after after puling out just two. If you're unlucky, you must pull out 5 because you will have one sock of each type + another sock which has to match at least one of the other 4 you pulled out.
Least risk if you pull out 5, though.
2007-06-22 22:25:34 · answer #3 · answered by Akilesh - Internet Undertaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see. 20 socks. To get two whites, the odds are good for a pair--8/20. With four colors, that would make a match after five tries.
2007-06-24 00:42:13 · answer #4 · answered by henry d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the answer depends on what color sock you pull out.
If you pulled out the tan one first then you could end up pulling 18 other ones before you find the matching tan. If you pulled the black one first you could end up pulling 14 others before you may end up with the matching black. If you pulled the brown one first then you could end up pulling 16 other socks before you get the matching brown one. And finally if you pulled the white one first you could end up pulling 12 other ones before you get the matching white one. however I roll my socks together so I do not have trouble matching my socks.
2007-06-22 19:47:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
tie them together in a pair before keeping in the drawer. it will be very convenient in dark.
there are five color socks so if you take out four socks of different the fifth has to match with any color.so you have to remove at the most 5 socks and least is 2
[ I am 1st to answer 5 socks at the most ]
2007-06-22 17:40:43 · answer #6 · answered by prs 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just 2 'cause in the dark all the socks match.
2007-06-22 17:36:52 · answer #7 · answered by Chaney34 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you had your socks folded you would only have to pull out once because you would have a pair put together already.
2007-06-22 17:41:56 · answer #8 · answered by Charly P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
U would have to pull out 20
2007-06-22 17:37:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wait, if its dark, how are you able to work out something? and why does not you basically turn on a mild? except u have evening inventive and prescient goggles, purely turn on a mild! and who cares in the experience that your socks experience? and to that individual who pronounced u can see white in the sark, um no! thats provided that your at lasertag or the socks are glow at evening!
2016-11-07 06:35:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋