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Dear Sir, Please refer to your video lecture on probability. In the last video on JEE questions, there is one question : Out of {1,2.3.4.5.6} two nos. are selected, what is the probability that minimum of the number is less than 4. You have calculated the favourable outcome as 6x4= 24 and total sample space as 6x5= 30. Therefore, the probability is calculated as 24/30= 4/5. though the answer is correct, I am not able to follow how the favourable outcome is calculated as 6x4. Please clarify and review your solution

Dear Sir,
 
Please refer to your video lecture on probability. In the last video on JEE questions, there is one question : Out  of {1,2.3.4.5.6} two nos. are selected, what is the probability that minimum of the number is less than 4. You have calculated the favourable outcome as 6x4= 24 and total sample space as 6x5= 30. Therefore, the probability is calculated as 24/30= 4/5. though the answer is correct, I am not able to follow how the favourable outcome is calculated as 6x4. Please clarify and review your solution

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Vijay Mukati
askIITians Faculty 2590 Points
8 years ago
Favorable outcome can be calculated as: Let one number be 1 then in combination with it there can be 5 possibilities(2,3,4,5,6) +Let one number be 2 then in combination with it there can be 5 possibilities(1,3,4,5,6)+Let one number be 3 then in combination with it there can be 5 possibilities(1,2,4,5,6)+Let one number be 4 then in combination with it there can be 3 possibilities (1,2,3) +Let one number be 5 then in combination with it there can be 3 possibilities (1,2,3) +Let one number be 6 then in combination with it there can be 3 possibilities (1,2,3). Therefore, in total there can be 24 favorable outcomes.

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