Drawer

A drawer contains a mixture of red socks and blue socks,at most 17 in all.It so happens that when two socks are selected randomly without replacement,there is a probability of exactly 1/2 that both are red or blue.The largest possible number of red socks in the drawer that is consistent with this data is

There are two red,two blue,two white,and certain number (greater than 0) of green socks in a drawer.If two socks are taken at random from the drawer without replacement,the probability that they are of the same color is 1/5, then the number of green socks are

In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first sentence (S_(1)) and the final sentence (S_(6)) are given in the beginning. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labelled P, Q, and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark accordingly on the Answer Sheet S_(1) : A gentleman trying to get a fly out of the milk or a piece of cork out of his glass of wine often imagines himself to be irritated. S_(6) : But I pointed out to him that this sense of wrong was really subjective and relative, it rested entirely upon the assumption that the drawer could, should, and would come out easily. P : Again, I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they attached no doctrinal significance, merely because a drawer was jammed tight and they could not pull it out. Q : Everyday his drawer was jammed, and everyday in consequence it was something else that rhymes to it. R : A friend of mine was particularly afflicted in this way. S : Let him think for a moment of the patience of anglers sitting by dark pools, and let this soul be immediately irradiated with gratification and repose. The proper sequence should be :