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A bag contains 64 balls of eight different colours. There are eight of each colour (including red). What is the least number you would have to pick, without looking, to be sure of selecting 3 red balls?
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Nice easy one, you would have to take out all 56 non-reds first, then the 3 reds
good and easy, my favorite kind
Way too easy and color is spelled as seen not colour (Unless your British I guess)
im british. to be exact english
Sorry but it was a little bit too easy. Nice, though.
i cant submit any hard teasers. im too dumb to make them up lol
wow pretty good
this was really good . the only problem is i STILLdont get it!!
colour is the best way of spellling colour
colour color who cares. i enjoyed the puzzle easy enough to get yet fun.
thats the worstcase scenario
DUMB
what?
This question has nothing to do with probability.
udoboy...I totally agree...how is this probability?
you are looking for a probability of 100% if you want a harder version how many does he need to get a 42% chance of having 3 reds
very nice and very tricky!!
wrong category, but good teaser.
WAAAYY too easy. You must be VERY unlucky to take that many picks though.
And probability figures into this how?
Maybe if you wanted to know that there is a 8C2 / 64C58 = 28/74974368 = 1/2677656 (approx. 0.000000373) probability of having to pick 59 balls before getting three red balls. But as stated, this is neither a probability teaser nor an interesting teaser.
Maybe if you wanted to know that there is a 8C2 / 64C58 = 28/74974368 = 1/2677656 (approx. 0.000000373) probability of having to pick 59 balls before getting three red balls. But as stated, this is neither a probability teaser nor an interesting teaser.
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