Everyone thought that Martha Mathy was trying to start a new fashion trend when she started wearing socks that did not match. her "look" started to catch on, and pretty soon all the kids at her school were wearing mixed-up socks, too. Rita Writer, a reporter for the school paper, interviewed Martha about the new sock trend. " Wat gave you the idea to wear mismatched socks?" Rita Asked. "Its simple mathematics," Martha replied. "you see, I have 18 socks at home but no two are the same. with just these 18 socks, I can create over 100 unique pairs of mismatched socks." Rita found this hard to believe, so she checked it out. Was Martha correct?