Problem

1993 AHSME Problem 24

A box contains 3 shiny pennies and 4 dull pennies. One by one, pennies are drawn at random from the box and not replaced. If the probability is a/b that it will take more than four draws until the third shiny penny appears and a/b is in lowest terms, then a+b=

\text{(A) } 11\quad \text{(B) } 20\quad \text{(C) } 35\quad \text{(D) } 58\quad \text{(E) } 66


Full credit goes to MAA for authoring these problems. These problems were taken on the AOPS website.


Show/Hide Problem Tags

Problem Tags: No tags

Want to contribute problems and receive full credit? Click here to add your problem!
Please report any issues to us in our Discord server
Go to previous contest problem (SHIFT + Left Arrow) Go to next contest problem (SHIFT + Right Arrow)