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Question 59962: Grace has 16 jellybeans in her pocket. She has 8 red ones, 4 green ones, and 4 blue ones. What is the minimum number of jellybeans she must take out of her pocket to ensure that she has one of each color?
Answer by funmath(2933)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Grace has 16 jellybeans in her pocket. She has 8 red ones, 4 green ones, and 4 blue ones. What is the minimum number of jellybeans she must take out of her pocket to ensure that she has one of each color?
8+4+1=13
Reason: if the first 8 were all red, and the next four were all green, then the rest will be blue, so she'll only need one more. Note it's possible to get one of each color by only picking 3, but she wanted to ensure that she got one of each color. In all probability, she won't need to select 13, but if she wants to be sure she wants to have at least 13.
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