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MathematicsProbabilityGeneral (Event SS, Definitions, Odd against/Favour)Hard2 minQB
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Six persons stand at random in a queue for buying cinema tickets. Individually three of them have only a fifty rupee note each while each of the other three have a hundred rupee note only. The booking clerk has an empty cash box, probability that six persons get tickets without waiting for change is ----, (cost of one ticket is Rs.50/- and each person gets one ticket only)

Options:

Answer:
C
Solution:

Here random experiment is arranging 6 persons in a line Let ' ' denote person having Rs.50/-, ' ' denote person having Rs.100/- note each since all the six person, should get ticket first place should be occupied by a person having Rs.50/and sixth place should be occupied by person having Rs.100/- possible cases are

 

 

' 's can arrange among themselves and

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Stream:JEESubject:MathematicsTopic:ProbabilitySubtopic:General (Event SS, Definitions, Odd against/Favour)
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