SOLUTION: wendy has 14 identical pens of 3 different colors in a bag; 7 red, 4 green, and 3 blue. Without looking, she draws out one pen at a time and puts it another bag. what is the minimu

Question 1024197: wendy has 14 identical pens of 3 different colors in a bag; 7 red, 4 green, and 3 blue. Without looking, she draws out one pen at a time and puts it another bag. what is the minimum number of pens she has to pull out in order to be sure that she got one pen of each color?
a. 3
b. 8
c. 11
d. 12
e. 13
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since there are three colors for the pens, she must choose at least 3 pens to pull three different colors.
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