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Can I expect a full set?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

Ray C. Shiflett  and
Harris S. Shultz
Harris S. Shultz
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, California State University, Fullerton, California 92634, U.S.A.
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Collecting the free picture-cards in packets of cigarettes or tea has always been popular. The equivalent up-to-date example is the gift of a picture—card of a football team with each purchase of petrol. Many a parent has been asked the question ‘how soon will we get the set’. Let us state a fairly general problem based upon this idea of collecting a set. Our problem states:

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 64 , Issue 430 , December 1980 , pp. 262 - 266
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1980

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