Answer the following question.Sammy the Seahawk filled 49 packages with big and/or small pens. When 2 packages had thesame number of pens, Sammy filled them with different selections of pens. For example, apackage could have been filled with 3 pens in only 4 ways: 3 big, 2 big & 1 small, 1 big & 2 small,or 3 small. If no package was left empty, then what is the least total number of pens Sammycould have put in the 49 packages?(Remember: Your solution must show appropriate work or reasoning.)

Given the total number of packages =49 Each package is filled with either big pens or small pens.…

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A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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