A box contains five set of balls while there are three balls in each set. Each set of balls has one colour which is different from every other set. What is the least number of balls that must be removed from the box in order to claim with certainly that a

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Q: 69 (IAS/2006)
A box contains five set of balls while there are three balls in each set. Each set of balls has one colour which is different from every other set. What is the least number of balls that must be removed from the box in order to claim with certainly that a pair of balls of the same colour has been removed?

question_subject: 

Logic/Reasoning

question_exam: 

IAS

stats: 

0,5,6,5,3,3,0

keywords: 

{'balls': [0, 1, 1, 0], 'least number': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'same colour': [0, 0, 6, 0], 'other set': [0, 0, 1, 0], 'colour': [11, 6, 13, 28], 'pair': [7, 0, 1, 12], 'box': [0, 0, 3, 3], 'order': [6, 12, 34, 35], 'set': [1, 2, 1, 0]}