Question

A carton contains 4 black tiles, 5 white tiles, and 3 brown tiles. If tiles are drawn at random without replacement, what is the maximum number of tiles that could be drawn without picking two of the same color?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 6
(e) 8

Answer 1

Statistics rite? What have you done/ what do oyu know about this?

Answer 2

yeah i don't know much about statistics. this is one of my sat questions.

Answer 3

oooh

Answer 4

well....do you kno about 5! ?

Answer 5

actuallly...i forogt statistics tooo..whoops

Answer 6

yeah that's = to 5 x 4 x 3 x 2x 1

Answer 7

eh...what about nPr (pick) and nCr (choose)?

Answer 8

i'm not sure

Answer 9

eh...look that up?

Answer 10

...i dont seem to be of much help...

Answer 11

so...

Answer 12

it's ok

Answer 13

sorry broski. ask me a few years early and I'd be able to answer this one.

Answer 14

i've even lost my notes for this subject...

Answer 15

that's fine i found the answer online. its choice (a) 3 but i still don't know how

Answer 16

oh wait i get it. it's actually very simple. since there's three different types of colors then obviously you can pick a max of 3 to still get a different color each time

Answer 17

whoa...i overlooked the simple stuff. smart thinkin

Answer 18

WAIT

Answer 19

Jsut 2, not 3...

Answer 20

"...drawn without picking two of the same color?"

Answer 21

two...

Answer 22

so...

Answer 23

but that's not even an answer choice

Answer 24

no, the answer IS NOT 2, that's not what I meant lol

Answer 25

you know what, I don't think I'm much help. I think you got your answer right (of 3).
Don't quote me tho...

Answer 26

imma go...if you need help, call out.
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