document.write( "Question 908839: how many students must be in a room to be sure that at least twelve are boys or at least twelve are girls \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "If there were only 22 students in the room, the only way 12 of them\r\n" );
document.write( "could not be the same gender is for there to be exactly 11 boys and \r\n" );
document.write( "11 girls.\r\n" );
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document.write( "BUT...\r\n" );
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document.write( "if we put one more student in that room, making it 23 students, then \r\n" );
document.write( "regardless of whether that 23rd student is a boy or a girl, there must \r\n" );
document.write( "be at least 12 of the same gender.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer: 23\r\n" );
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