You are in a pitch black room and need to get a pair of socks out of your drawer which can contain up to 100 socks. In the drawer is a mixture of black and white socks, and there's at least one pair of either color. If you choose two socks, the chance that you draw out a black pair is 2/3.

What is the chance that you draw out a white pair?
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Bonus: what would the answer be if the drawer contained between 100 and 1000 socks?

(In reply to re: Solution (maybe) by nikki)

Yeah, i hit submit too many times. Also I realized that the sock removed changes the ratio of socks in the drawer. My solution was kind of quick and dirty. It wouldn't make much of a difference if there were around a hundred socks, but my solution gets more innacurate as there number of socks decreases.

Posted by Nate on 2004-09-09 13:10:33