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217. A certain junior class has 1000 students and a certain senior class has 800 students. Among these students, there are 60 sibling 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 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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Re: PS: Probability [#permalink] New post 04 Aug 2008, 07:40
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217. A certain junior class has 1000 students and a certain senior class has 800 students. Among these students, there are 60 sibling 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 will be a sibling pair?

a. 3/40,000
b. 1/3,600
c. 9/2,000
d. 1/60
e. 1/15



probability of selecting 60 juninors(sibiling) out of 1000 = 60/1000
probablity of selecting matching sibling out 800 students = 1/800

=60/1000 * 1/800 = 3/40000

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