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AIME 2026b Problem 5

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An urn contains nn marbles. Each marble is either red or blue, and there are at least 77 marbles of each color. When 77 marbles are drawn randomly from the urn without replacement, the probability that exactly 44 of them are red equals the probability that exactly 55 of them are red. Find the sum of the five least values of nn for which this is possible.

Dataset text AIME 1983 to 2026. Quoted with source.

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