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Problem Solving (PS) | Re: A drawer contains 8 pairs of socks. For each sock, there is exactly

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Ambika02 wrote:

Hi ,

Can you tell me whats wrong with my solution
Chances of picking the 1 st sock =16
Chances of picking the 2 nd sock =14

and so on

So my final answer was 1-(16*14*12*10*8*6/16C6)
What's wrong with my approach?


because you are mixing two approaches probability and combination one. chance of picking the first sock is 16/16 and second is 14/15 every sock have different you can't take just 16C6

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