Question

A barrel contains 10 red balls, 11 blue balls, and 23 green balls. You start taking balls out. How many do you need to remove, at minimum, to ensure you have taken out at least one of each color?

Answer 1

22.

Explanation:

You might take 10 red balls out in the first 10 picks. Now you are left with 11 blue and 23 green and you might take out the 11 blue in 11 picks. The next pick must be green.

So the answer is 10 + 11 + 1 = 22 balls.

Answer 2

The answer is3

Explanation:

because there is three colors