You have 5 gold fish, 4 Siamese fighting fish and 1 deadly baby piranha in 10 different containers, which are all separated from the main fish tank by the trap doors. Swimming together, gold fish are harmless while the fighting fish will only attack their own kind. On the other hand, the ravenous piranha will devour everything in its way!
If you let 3 fish out of the containers randomly, what is the probability (in percentage) that no fish will be injured or dead?
Give your answer to the nearest integer.
This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try
refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and,
finally, (c)
loading the
non-javascript version of this page
. We're sorry about the hassle.
There are only 2 scenarios where no fish will fight each other: 1. They are all gold fish. & 2. There are 2 gold fish and 1 Siamese fighting fish (it will only bite other fighting fish). The piranha can't be let out; otherwise, it will eat other fish.
The total number of ways we can pick 3 fish out of 10= 3 ! 7 ! 1 0 ! = 120
The number of ways for scenario 1 (picking 3 out of 5 gold fish) = 3 ! 2 ! 5 ! = 10
The number of ways for scenario 2 (picking 2 out of 5 gold fish & 1 out of 4 fighting fish) = 3 ! 2 ! 5 ! 3 ! 1 ! 4 ! = 40
Therefore, the probability that no fish will be injured or dead = 1 2 0 1 0 + 4 0 = 1 2 0 5 0 ≈ 4 2 %
I did the same way. It would be better if you added the statement: "Fishes of the same kind aren't identical." This erases the ambiguity that may arise. Otherwise the problem is wonderful!
Log in to reply
Thanks! ;)
Log in to reply
I made it popular :)
Log in to reply
@Aditya Kumar – Thanks again! ;)
Log in to reply
@Worranat Pakornrat – This was posted earlier. Plaese delete it.
Log in to reply
@Aditya Kumar – Done. Now there's only one of them.
Problem Loading...
Note Loading...
Set Loading...
the number of ways of selecting non-harming pairs are ( 3 5 ) + ( 2 5 ) ∗ ( 1 4 ) = 5 0
Total number of ways of selecting 3 fishes from 10 fishes are = ( 3 1 0 ) = 1 2 0
so the probability os selection of non-harming pairs = 1 2 0 5 0 ∗ 1 0 0 = 4 1 . 6 6 6 6 7 % = 4 2 %(approx.)