Solution of the Week #548 - Fifty Pebbles

Asking for the probability was a deliberate red herring, since it’s actually impossible for the last pebble to be white.

The only way of removing black pebbles is if both selected pebbles are black, at which point they are both discarded. But since we start with an odd number of black pebbles, we will still have an odd number of black pebbles throughout the game. Therefore the final pebble will be black. The probability the last pebble is white is 0.