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What are the odds that my daughter's socks drawer contains exclusively single socks? Over 20 socks but not a single pair
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this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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This seems so unlikely that it may be done on purpose. Is there a way to calculate the probability of this being on purpose? For instance, if she had 30 pairs of socks to start with, it seems unlikely to reach 20 single socks if they are randomly lost. Intuitively it should depend on how far we are from the expected value of single socks after losing N socks, but idk how to model nor calculate this.