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Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, go to a corporate presentation that ends with two sequential drawings of PDA, among the 60 attending students. If each attendant is given one ticket participating in the lottery of the two PDA's and if each winning ticket is removed from the urn, what is the probability that both PDA will go to the couple?

A. 1/1770
B. 1/120
C. 1/118
D. 1/60
E. 1/59

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Re: Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, [#permalink] New post   29 Nov 2012, 03:42
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himanshuhpr wrote:
Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, go to a corporate presentation that ends with two sequential drawings of PDA, among the 60 attending students. If each attendant is given one ticket participating in the lottery of the two PDA's and if each winning ticket is removed from the urn, what is the probability that both PDA will go to the couple?

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The first PDA goes to Derek and the second to Lena - 1/60*1/59;
The first PDA goes to Lena and the second to Derek - 1/60*1/59;

Thus, the overall probability that both PDA will go to the couple is 2*1/60*1/59=1/1770.

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Re: Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, [#permalink] New post   29 Nov 2012, 07:48
Bunuel wrote:

The first PDA goes to Derek and the second to Lena - 1/60*1/59;
The first PDA goes to Lena and the second to Derek - 1/60*1/59;

Thus, the overall probability that both PDA will go to the couple is 2*1/60*1/59=1/1770.

Hope it's clear.


Just for understanding it better, is it right to think in following way:

In 1st case , till the time Derek receives the first PDA every of the 60 participants including Lena have the equal probability of 1/60 of receiving the 1st PDA and after its confirmed that Derek does receive the 1st PDA, the remaining all participants including Lena will have 1/59 probability of receiving the 2nd PDA.


^^^ thinking above on the lines of 'row' concept.
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Re: Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, [#permalink] New post   06 Dec 2012, 13:57
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Combined is 2/3540, which is equal to 1/1770
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Re: Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, [#permalink] New post   14 Sep 2020, 07:00
Why do we have to multiply it by 2? Why is the order important in this question?

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Re: Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, [#permalink] New post   24 Sep 2021, 01:43
himanshuhpr wrote:
Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, go to a corporate presentation that ends with two sequential drawings of PDA, among the 60 attending students. If each attendant is given one ticket participating in the lottery of the two PDA's and if each winning ticket is removed from the urn, what is the probability that both PDA will go to the couple?

A. 1/1770
B. 1/120
C. 1/118
D. 1/60
E. 1/59

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What is PDA?
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Re: Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, [#permalink] New post   05 Oct 2021, 06:49
thakurarun85 wrote:
himanshuhpr wrote:
Derrick and Lena a married couple attending the same business school, go to a corporate presentation that ends with two sequential drawings of PDA, among the 60 attending students. If each attendant is given one ticket participating in the lottery of the two PDA's and if each winning ticket is removed from the urn, what is the probability that both PDA will go to the couple?

A. 1/1770
B. 1/120
C. 1/118
D. 1/60
E. 1/59

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Answer to this question is : 1/1770


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Dear thakurarun85,

The question talks about lucky draw, there are two PDA's available as prizes , PDA stands for Persoanl Digital Assistants, kind of pocket PC. Please google PDA to undertand better.

Hence question is asking what is the probability that the couple gets both the prizes.

Hope it's clear now.
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