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by sumit.sinha » Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:12 am
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Answer Choices:
(A) 3/40,000
(B) 3/20,000
(C) 3/4,000
(D) 9/400
(E) 6/130

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Answer Choices:
(A) 3/40,000
(B) 1/3,600
(C) 9/2,000
(D) 1/60
(E) 1/15

Source - GMATPrep Practice Test

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by goyalsau » Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:51 am
A is the answer
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by Rahul@gurome » Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:58 am
Basic principle of both the question is same. (Incidentally the answer is same too! :) )
I'll explain the first one.

Number of possible ways to select two students such that one of them is a junior student and another is a senior student = (Number of possible ways to select a junior student out of 1000)*(Number of possible ways to select a senior student out of 800) = 1000*800

Number of possible ways to select a sibling pair = (Number of possible ways to select one of them out of 60)*(Number of possible ways to select other one of them out of 60) = 60*1

(Number of possible ways to select other one of them out of 60 is 1 because as the first one is already selected other one is fixed for him/her.)

Therefore required probability = 60/(800*1000) = 3/40,000

The correct answer is A.
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by sumit.sinha » Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:07 am
Rahul@gurome wrote:Basic principle of both the question is same. (Incidentally the answer is same too! :) )
I'll explain the first one.

Number of possible ways to select two students such that one of them is a junior student and another is a senior student = (Number of possible ways to select a junior student out of 1000)*(Number of possible ways to select a senior student out of 800) = 1000*800

Number of possible ways to select a sibling pair = (Number of possible ways to select one of them out of 60)*(Number of possible ways to select other one of them out of 60) = 60*1

(Number of possible ways to select other one of them out of 60 is 1 because as the first one is already selected other one is fixed for him/her.)

Therefore required probability = 60/(800*1000) = 3/40,000

The correct answer is A.
Thanks for the explanation Rahul.
But dont i need to take into consideration the way/sequence in which i select the siblings??
i.e in one sequence- i first select a sibling form Junior class and then select the matching one from senior class.
and in the 2nd sequence- i first select a sibling form senior class and then select the matching one from junior class
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