Conclusions: Many counting problems involve a “minimum” requirement (e.g. flags with at least six blue stripes, license plates with at least six A’s, bags of fruit containing at least six apples, etc.) Problems such as these are vulnerable to over-counting in the manner observed above, but this can be remedied by replacing the minimum condition with several cases containing an “exact” condition and summing the total count for each of these cases. Instead of counting the number of flags with at least six blue stripes in one step, for example, we can count the number of flags with exactly six stripes, exactly seven stripes, and exactly eight stripes separately. Each of these three subcases are less prone to error, and as we have done above, the results from each subcase can be added to yield the final result.