Tina randomly selects two distinct numbers from the setand Sergio randomly selects a number from the set
What is the probability that Sergio's number is larger than the sum of the two numbers chosen by Tina?
Very nice Alan.
I really like the way you have displayed this.
To get Tina's probabilities, Alan has just counted the nymber of pairs that would work and divided it by 5C2.
5C2 is the number of ways that 2 numbers can be chosen from 5 where order does not matter.
nCr(5,2)
(5!2!×(5−2)!)=10
Probability of Sergio's number being greater than Tina's sum is:
Tina's sum Tina's Probability Probability of Sergio's number being greater Product of probabilities
3 1/10 7/10 7/100
4 1/10 6/10 6/100
5 2/10 5/10 10/100
6 2/10 4/10 8/100
7 2/10 3/10 6/100
8 1/10 2/10 2/100
9 1/10 1/10 1/100
Add up all the probabilities in the last column
(7+6+10+8+6+2+1)/100 = 40/100
So probability of Sergio's number being greater than the sum of Tina's two numbers is 0.4
(Edited to correct error - thanks Chris!).
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Very nice Alan.
I really like the way you have displayed this.
To get Tina's probabilities, Alan has just counted the nymber of pairs that would work and divided it by 5C2.
5C2 is the number of ways that 2 numbers can be chosen from 5 where order does not matter.
nCr(5,2)
(5!2!×(5−2)!)=10