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There is a dressing drawer which contains the following coloured socks in pairs: Purple, Magenta, Crimson, White........

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There is a dressing drawer which contains the following coloured socks in pairs: Purple, Magenta, Crimson, White, Yellow and Turquoise. Now, the socks are paired and each pair is together in the matching set. There is no light in the room and you open the drawer and pick up a pair. Then, without noticing any colour, you keep them back and pick them up again.

Can you calculate the probability that the pair of socks was Yellow both times?

posted Apr 26 by Ankur Athari

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