As a prize, a contest winner gets to draw out one bill at a time from a box containing 10 five-dollar bills, 10 ten- dollar bills, and 10 twenty-dollar bills. What is the largest sum of money that can be won under these conditions?
The drawing ends when 3 bills of the same denomination are drawn, and, of course, the contest winner keeps whatever he has drawn.
The drawing ends when 3 bills of the same denomination are drawn, and, of course, the contest winner keeps whatever he has drawn.
See a solution process below:
The largest denomination of bill is $20.
So, to start finding the maximum able to be drawn, they contest winner would draw 3 60.
Prior to drawing the 3rd 5 bills and 2 of the 20 bills they had drawn would give:
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