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Problem

Jordan owns 15 pairs of sneakers. Three fifths of the pairs are red and the rest are white. Two thirds of the pairs are high-top and the rest are low-top. The red high-top sneakers make up a fraction of the collection. What is the least possible value of this fraction?

$\textbf{(A) } 0\qquad\textbf{(B) } \dfrac{1}{5} \qquad\textbf{(C) } \dfrac{4}{15} \qquad\textbf{(D) } \dfrac{1}{3} \qquad\textbf{(E) } \dfrac{2}{5}$

Solution 1

Jordan has $10$ high top sneakers, and $6$ white sneakers. We would want as many white high-top sneakers as possible, so we set $6$ high-top sneakers to be white. Then, we have $10-6=4$ red high-top sneakers, so the answer is $\boxed{\dfrac{4}{15}}.$

Solution 2

We first start by finding the number of red and white sneakers. $\frac{3}{5} \times 15=9$ red sneakers, so 6 are white. Then $\frac{2}{3} \times 15=10$ are high top sneakers, so $5$ are low top sneakers. Now think about $15$ slots, and the first $10$ are labeled high-top sneakers. If we insert the last $5$ sneakers as red sneakers, there are $4$ leftover red sneakers. Putting those $4$ sneakers as high top sneakers, we have our answer as C, or $\boxed{\dfrac{4}{15}}.$

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Solution 3

There are $\dfrac{3}{5}\cdot 15 = 9$ red pairs of sneakers and $6$ white pairs. There are also $\dfrac{2}{3}\cdot 15 = 10$ high-top pairs of sneakers and $5$ low-top pairs. Let $r$ be the number of red high-top sneakers and let $w$ be the number of white high-top sneakers. It follows that there are $9-r$ red pairs of low-top sneakers and $6-r$ white pairs. We must have $9-r \leq 5,$ in order to have a valid amount of white sneakers. Solving this inequality gives $r\geq 4$ , so the smallest possible value for $r$ is $4$ . This means that there would be $9-4=5$ pairs of low-top red sneakers, so there are $0$ pairs of low-top white sneakers and $6$ pairs of high top white sneakers. This checks out perfectly, so the smallest fraction is $\boxed{\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{4}{15}}.$

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Solution 4

$15 \times \frac{3}{5}=9$ , which is the number of red pairs of sneakers. Then, $\frac{2}{3} \times 15=10$ , so there are ten pairs of high-top sneakers. If there are ten high-top sneakers, there are five low top sneakers. To have the lowest amount of high-top red sneakers, all five of the low-top sneakers need to be red. There are four red sneakers remaining so they have to be high-top. So the answer is $\boxed{\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{4}{15}}.$

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Solution 5

Let the number of red high-top sneakers be $x$ . Making a two way table we get:

Two-way table
	Red	White	Total
High-top	$x$	$10 - x$	$10$
Low-top	$9-x$	$x-4$	$5$
Total	$9$	$6$	$15$

From the table we can see that $4\leq x\leq 9$ . Therefore the minimum value is when $x=4$ .

So the answer is $\boxed{\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{4}{15}}.$

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 Let the number of red high-top sneakers be <imath>x</imath>. Making a two way table we get:
-\[
+{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;"
-\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|}
+|+ Two-way table
-\hline
+!
-    & red_2 & white & Total \\ \hline
+! Red
-High & <imath>x</imath> & <imath>10-x</imath> & <imath>10</imath> \\ \hline
+! White
-Low & <imath>9-x</imath> & <imath>x-4</imath> & <imath>5</imath> \\ \hline
+! Total
-Total & <imath>9</imath> & <imath>6</imath> & <imath>15</imath> \\ \hline
+|-
-\end{array}
+! High-top
-\]
+| <imath>x</imath> || <imath>10 - x</imath> || <imath>10</imath>
+|-
+! Low-top
+| <imath>9-x</imath> || <imath>x-4</imath> || <imath>5</imath>
+|-
+! Total
+| <imath>9</imath> || <imath>6</imath> || <imath>15</imath>
+|}
-From the table we can see that <imath> 4<=x<=9 </imath>. Therefore the minimum value is when <imath>x=4</imath>.
+From the table we can see that <imath> 4\leq x\leq 9 </imath>. Therefore the minimum value is when <imath>x=4</imath>.
 So the answer is <imath>\boxed{\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{4}{15}}.</imath>

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