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Suppose 1/4 of your stocks are blue how many pairs of socks would you have to select randomly on average in order to get 4 pairs of blue socks
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Suppose 1/4 of your stocks are blue how many pairs of socks would you have to select randomly on average in order to get 4 pairs of blue socks

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Because you will theoretically get one blue sock out of every four attempts, multiply four by four to get an answer of 16 times on average.
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