Carcass wrote:
Ben has 30 pencils in a box. Each of the pencils is one of 5 different colors, and there are 6 pencils of each color. If Ben selects pencils one at a time from the box without being able to see the pencils, what is the minimum number of pencils that he must select in order to ensure that he selects at least 2 pencils of each color?
A. 24
B. 25
C. 26
D. 27
E. 28
In such type of questions, we take the worst case possible.
Now there are 5 colors and 6 pencils of each color.
The worst case would be that we pick 24 pencils and still we have only 4 colors.
So, to get another 2 pencils such that we have atleast 2 pencils of each color.
the total number of pencils become = 24 + 2 = 26.
OA - C