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Matching Pair From Three Socks

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Section 3.2

Dice, Coins, Urns and Seats Toolkit
  1. 3.7Two Birds Side by Side
  2. 3.8Seated in Age Order Around a Table
  3. 3.9Girls Joining a Circle of Boys
  4. 3.10Dice Sum At Least Product
  5. 3.11Max Equals Min Around Zero
  6. 3.12One Random Subset Inside Another
  7. 3.13Rerolling the Same Dice Values
  8. 3.14Sock Drawer With Probability One Half
  9. 3.15Matching Pair From Three Socks
  10. 3.16Matching Colours in Two Halves
  11. 3.17Restoring a House Number
  12. 3.18Random Weights on a Balance
  13. 3.19Random Tic-Tac-Toe Line
  14. 3.20Ants Moving on a Triangle
  15. 3.21Four Chords Forming a Quadrilateral
  16. 3.22Three Colours Meeting at a Corner
  17. 3.23Each Face Exactly Six Times
  18. 3.24Loaded Die and a Sum of Seven
  19. 3.25A Run of Exactly Three Heads
  20. 3.26Four Dogs in a Row at a Round Table
  21. 3.27No Two Adjacent Bulbs Lit
  22. 3.28Monochromatic Rectangles in a Dodecagon
  23. 3.29Exactly One Leftward Hop
  24. 3.30Distinct Win Totals in a Round Robin
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