7 votes 7 votes A basket of fruit is being arranged out of apples, bananas, and oranges. What is the smallest number of pieces of fruit that should be put in the basket in order to guarantee that either there are at least $8$ apples or at least $6$ bananas or at least $9$ oranges? $9$ $10$ $20$ $21$ Quantitative Aptitude cmi2012 quantitative-aptitude pigeonhole-principle + – go_editor asked May 22, 2016 • edited Jun 7, 2018 by Milicevic3306 go_editor 2.2k views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 9 votes 9 votes First, put 7 apples, 5 bananas, and 8 oranges, now put one more fruit to fulfill the mentioned condition either orange or banana or apple. Note that condition is given with OR. Answer is $(7 + 5 + 8) +1 = 21$ Correct Answer: $D$ Manu Thakur answered Jan 25, 2018 • edited Apr 27, 2019 by Naveen Kumar 3 Manu Thakur comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
4 votes 4 votes D) 21 In order to "guarantee" , we have to consider the worst case scenario which we obtain like this : O A B O A B O A B O A B O A B O A A O O B thus giving a total of 21 possibilities Prasita Mukherjee answered May 26, 2016 Prasita Mukherjee comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply shaurya vardhan commented Nov 14, 2017 reply Follow Share i didnt get it, can someone pls explain the solution? 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.