Ravi has 6 pairs of black gloves and 8 pairs of brown gloves in his closet. He blindly picks up some gloves from the closet. What is the minimum number of gloves Ravi will have to pick to be certain to find a pair of gloves of the same color?

• Ans> 3
  
  Bcz worse case blue,brown,blue /brown so pair completes
  Even color is vice-versa pattern will be same
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• 3 gloves.
  first he picks out 2 if they are of same color then fine,otherwise he have to pick the third one which will be either brown or black in color.thus he will get a pair of black or brown gloves respectively!!!
  
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• 3 pick any three gloves two are of the same color and make a pair.
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