There is a 12 out of 24 chance that the first sock you pick is black, because there are 12 black socks out of the total 24 socks. Simplified, this is a 1 out of 2, or 50 percent, probability. But when ...
A popular line of thinking says that when you pick a pair of socks, you have only two possible outcomes: either they will match, or they won't. And given that the number of white socks and black socks ...