SOLUTION: A bowl contains 75 candies identical except for color. Twenty are red 25 are green, and 30 are brown.Without looking, what is the least number of candies you must pick in order to

Question 1104043: A bowl contains 75 candies identical except for color. Twenty are red 25 are green, and 30 are brown.Without looking, what is the least number of candies you must pick in order to be absolutely certain that three of them are brown?
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Solve this kind of problem by considering a "worst case" scenario.

If you want to get three brown candies, the worst that can happen is that you get all of the other candies before you get any brown ones.

So the first 45 candies are the 20 red and 25 green; then you need to pick three more candies to get three brown.

20+25+3 = 48.
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