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Alex has many socks in his drawer. There are only blue socks, purple socks and black socks.
Alex performs the following operation:
- take out 2 socks
- put back one sock
- take out 3 socks
- put back 2 socks
- take out 2 socks
What's the probability Alex has a matching pair of socks?
The answer is 1.000.
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1 solution
Alex pulls out 4 socks (in the end) and has 3 types of colored socks, so the probability is 1.