Comments on: Blindly Picking Socks

By: Derick

Derick — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:50:04 +0000

3, because the only possible ways you can pick a pair out of 3 socks are:

black black black
black black white
black white white
white white white

And you’ll notice that all of these triplets have at least two of them matching
two wouldn’t work because you could get a

black white
black black
white white

which isn’t guarenteed

Smith — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:02:07 +0000

Still don’t understand

Dan — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:13:34 +0000

In reply to Walter. There are only 24 socks in the drawer.

Walter — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 03:22:47 +0000

you have to pick 25 socks because there are 24 of each color.

GraceyCakes — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 23:47:09 +0000

13, because if you take out 3 black socks… OH NVM IM STOOPID XD

Maria — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:36:29 +0000

Sorry, misread! I thought it asked for a black pair, not a matching pair. Yeah, it is 3 then!

Maria — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:35:06 +0000

To be 100% sure and to be able to bet ur life on it u need to take out 13 socks!

Ivy — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:19:07 +0000

Only three. You will either get three of the same color, two black and one white or vice versa.