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Marble Counting (Posted on 2003-03-14)

A box contains 12 marbles of three different colors – Green, Yellow and Blue – 4 of each.

If you were to close your eyes and pick them at random, how many marbles must you take out to be sure that there are at least two of one color among the marbles picked out ?

See The Solution Submitted by Ravi Raja

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Subject	Author	Date
Explanation for Puzzle Answer	K Sengupta	2022-03-04 00:54:11
Puzzle Answer	K Sengupta	2022-03-04 00:46:55
Solution - POP	sassy	2004-04-29 11:41:55
Solution	Lewis	2003-06-08 10:24:10
re: Part 1,The bag	Ravi Raja	2003-03-23 20:28:52
Part 2:Timothy's pick	Tim Axoy	2003-03-23 09:45:27
Part 1,The bag	Tim Axoy	2003-03-23 09:40:29
re: solution	fwaff	2003-03-18 22:13:30
solution	silvis	2003-03-18 14:09:03
full solution	luvya2003	2003-03-15 12:57:31
Socks revisited	Brian Nowell	2003-03-14 17:33:24
Not too hard :)	Gamer	2003-03-14 11:08:23
solution	luvya2003	2003-03-14 11:07:40

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