Probability of the Same Colour

In a box, there is a jumble of 7 red balls, 6 blue balls, 5 green balls, and 4 yellow balls. What is the minimum number of balls, will you have to pick up so that you have at least 4 balls of the same colour?




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Can you identify what word it is?

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Can you help him divide the land in a manner that both of his sons will be happy?

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PS: No other resource is available to you on the island, neither can you build anything.

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The measurement of time, That can't be found on a clock, But can be looked upon on a map.

Who is He ?

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He can swim upstream in that lake in exactly 60 minutes against the lake current.
The length of the lake is 2 km.

How long he can cover the distance of one side at a still lake with no current?

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What has many teeth, but cannot bite?

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Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.

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