Question

You have a cupboard with a,b,c pairs of red, green and blue socks respectively. You can take out only 1 sock at a time, without looking. Find the maximum number of times t you must take out a sock till you get n matching pairs, of any colour.

Answer 1

total number of outcome=6

No. of favorable outcome=1

the maximum no. of time you must take out a sock till you get matching pair of any colour is= no. of favourable outcome / total no. of outcome

=1/6