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A certain junior class has 1,000 students and a certain senior class has 800 students. Among these students, there are 60 siblings pairs, each consisting of 1 junior and 1 senior. If 1 student is to be selected at random from each class, what is the probability that the 2 students selected at will be a sibling pair?

A. 3/40,000
B. 1/3,600
C. 9/2,000
D. 1/60
E. 1/15

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by GMATGuruNY » Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:49 pm
BTGmoderatorDC wrote:A certain junior class has 1,000 students and a certain senior class has 800 students. Among these students, there are 60 siblings pairs, each consisting of 1 junior and 1 senior. If 1 student is to be selected at random from each class, what is the probability that the 2 students selected at will be a sibling pair?

A. 3/40,000
B. 1/3,600
C. 9/2,000
D. 1/60
E. 1/15
P(sibling pair) = (total number of sibling pairs)/(total number of possible pairs).

Total number of possible pairs:
There are 1000 juniors and 800 seniors.
Total number of ways to combine 1 junior with 1 senior = 1000*800 = 800,000.

Total number of sibling pairs = 60.

Thus:
P(sibling pair) = 60/800,000 = 3/40,000.

The correct answer is A.

Alternate approach:

Junior class:
P(picking a member of a sibling pair) = 60/1000. (Of the 1000 juniors, 60 belong to a sibling pair.)

Senior class:
P(picking the selected junior's sibling) = 1/800. (Of the 800 seniors, 1 is the selected junior's sibling).

Since we want both events to happen, we MULTIPLY the probabilities:
(60/1000) * (1/800) = 60/800000 = 3/40000.
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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Sat Aug 04, 2018 4:41 am
BTGmoderatorDC wrote:A certain junior class has 1,000 students and a certain senior class has 800 students. Among these students, there are 60 siblings pairs, each consisting of 1 junior and 1 senior. If 1 student is to be selected at random from each class, what is the probability that the 2 students selected at will be a sibling pair?

A. 3/40,000
B. 1/3,600
C. 9/2,000
D. 1/60
E. 1/15

OA A

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P(selecting a sibling pair) = P(select a junior with a sibling AND select the senior who is that junior's sibling)
= P(select a junior with a sibling) x P(select the senior who is that junior's sibling[/u])
= 60/1000 x 1/800
= 60/800,000
= 3/40,000
= A

Note: P(select a junior with a sibling) = 60/1000, because 60 of the 1000 juniors have a sibling who is a senior.
P(select a senior who is that junior's sibling) = 1/800, because there are 800 senior's and only 1 of them is the sibling of the selected junior.

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by swerve » Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:33 am
We can try as follows,

Probability to get a sibling member on junior class = P1 = 60/1.000
Probability to get a sibling member on senior class = P2 = 60/800
Probability to get a sibling pair on all sibling pairs = P3 = 1/60
Probability that the 2 students selected at will be a sibling pair = P4

P4 = P1 * P2 * P3 = (60/1.000)*(60/800)*(1/60) = 3/40.000.

Hence, A is the correct answer. Regards!

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by Scott@TargetTestPrep » Tue Apr 23, 2019 6:33 pm
BTGmoderatorDC wrote:A certain junior class has 1,000 students and a certain senior class has 800 students. Among these students, there are 60 siblings pairs, each consisting of 1 junior and 1 senior. If 1 student is to be selected at random from each class, what is the probability that the 2 students selected at will be a sibling pair?

A. 3/40,000
B. 1/3,600
C. 9/2,000
D. 1/60
E. 1/15

OA A

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