SOLUTION: Please assist me in arriving to the answer of this problem.
The problem as stated from the book:
Show that if you pick three socks from a drawer containing just blue socks and
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The problem as stated from the book:
Show that if you pick three socks from a drawer containing just blue socks and
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: Please assist me in arriving to the answer of this problem.
The problem as stated from the book:
Show that if you pick three socks from a drawer containing just blue socks and black socks, you must get either a pair of blue socks or a pair of black socks.
Given hint by professor:
Either use contradiction or better yet try proof by cases.
I do not understand how to use proofs by contradiction. This question is from textbook Discrete Mathematics And Its Applications
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Proof by contradiction is assuming that something assumed false CAN in fact be done and then show that this leads to a ridiculuous (paradoxical) outcome.
Assume it is possible to take 3 socks out of the drawer and NOT have a pair.
Then all three socks would be different colours.
But there are only two colours of socks in the drawer.
That's a contradiction.
Therefore the original assumpttion must be bogus.
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