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Bunuel wrote:
Two numbers are successively selected at random and with replacement from the set of integers {1, 2, ..., 100}. What is the probability that the first one is greater than the second?


(A) 1/200
(B) 1/100
(C) 49/100
(D) 99/200
(E) 1/2


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If replacement were not allowed, answer would be 1/2 because whatever may be the two integers, in each case there would be two ways to arrange them -greater picked first or smaller picked first.

But here replacement is allowed.
Probability of picking the same number twice = 1 * (1/100)
Pick any number in the first go and then pick the same number with probability 1/100 in the second go.

So probability of picking 2 diff numbers is 1 - 1/100 = 99/100.
In half of this, first number will be greater and in the other half, second number will be greater.
So req probability = 1/2 * 99/100 = 99/200

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Re: Two numbers are successively selected at random and with replacement [#permalink]
Ways of picking 2 numbers with replacement

100*100

Number of pairs of identical numbers

100

Number of pairs where numbers are different

100*100 - 100 =

= 100*99

Half of those will have first number greater than second

= 50*99

Probability of above

50*99/(100*100) = 99/200

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