Mr. Blue has 12 brown gloves and 8 black gloves in a drawer in his closet. If he blindly pulls gloves from the drawer, what's the minimum number of gloves Mr. Blue will have to pick, to be certain he has a pair of gloves of the same color?

Three !!!

The worst case scenario after 2 picks is that, he has 1 glove of each colour... so the third pick will certainly give him a pair of either colour !!!

Posted by Syzygy on 2004-10-06 08:43:12