Help please with tis math problem im in 8th grade

Adrawer contains 12 identical white socks, 18 identical black socks and 14 identical brown socks. what is the least number of socks you must choose, without looking, to be certain that you have chosen two socks of the same colour?

If a || b and b | y, then ? a) x || y. b) x | a. c) a | y. d) a || y.

The sum of the first eight terms of an arithmetic progression is 9m + 14. the fifth term of the06 progression is 2m - 6, where m is a constant. given that the first term of the progression is 26,find the value of the common difference, d and thevalue of m.