A bag contains 20 yellow balls, 10 green balls, 5 white balls, 8 black balls, and 1 red ball. How many minimum balls one should pick out so that to make sure the he gets at least 2 balls of same color.

• there are 5 different type of balls so on picking 6 balls there would be atleast 2 balls of same color
  
  6 balls
• 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(35) No(2)
• minimum 6 balls should be taken so that 1 ball of each of 5 colors and the last 6 one should be one of those colors..
• 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(5) No(0)
• 3 balls. As there is only one red ball, and as the condition is there must be at least 2 balls of the same color, we have to draw at least 3 balls.
• 12 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(10)