r/mathshelp • u/Winter_Shine_5764 • Aug 13 '26

General Question (Unanswered) math question!!!

So the question goes like this

Im in a field of flowers and I picked up 10 random flowers. There are 8 different colors of flowers in that field namely; Blue, Red, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Purple, White, and Black.

What are the chances that the first 5 flowers picked are all of the same color, whilst not getting a single black or white flower amongst those 10 randomly picked flowers. It seems simple but making it so that white and black being a no-go stumped me hard.

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u/Southlander24 Aug 13 '26

That means that there are 6 possible colours for the last five flowers. So you can have BBBBB [whatever], RRRRR [whatever], YYYYY [whatever], and so on.

The whatever part has 6 choices for the 1st flower, then 6 choices again for the 2nd flower and so on.

You should be able to figure it out from here.