A drawer holds purple socks and yellow socks. If n socks are taken out of the drawer at random, the probability that all are yellow is 1/2. What is the smallest possible number of socks in the drawer (as a function of n)?

A drawer holds purple socks and yellow socks. If n socks are taken out of the drawer at random, the probability that all are yellow is 1/2. What is the smallest possible number of socks in the drawer (as a function of n)?

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

10th Edition

ISBN:9780470458365

Author:Erwin Kreyszig

Publisher:Erwin Kreyszig

Chapter2: Second-order Linear Odes

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