Simple probability

Let A A be the set of natural numbers from 21 to 30 inclusive. The probability that the sum of 4 randomly chosen integers from the set A is even is equal to a b \frac { a }{ b } where the a and b are co prime. Find a + b a+b Source: OSN 2009


The answer is 32.

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1 solution

Bima Chandra
May 11, 2019

we're choosing 4 numbers out 10. So the sample space would be nCr ( 10 , 4 ) \operatorname{nCr}\left(10,4\right) . There are 3 cases where the sum of 4 chosen numbers is even, all the chosen numbers are even, all are odd or 2 odds and 2 evens. For 2 odds and 2 evens, the amount of ways this could happen is nCr ( 5 , 2 ) 2 \operatorname{nCr}\left(5,2\right)^2 . This come from the fact that there are 5 odd numbers and 5 even numbers and we're choosing two of each. The second and third case is all the chosen numbers are even or odd. So this comes out to 2 nCr ( 5 , 4 ) 2\operatorname{nCr}\left(5,4\right) . We can either choose 4 numbers from the 5 even numbers or 4 numbers from the 5 odd numbers. Or you could think of this as 2 ways to choose either odd or even * nCr ( 5 , 4 ) \operatorname{nCr}\left(5,4\right) . Sum the cases up we will get nCr ( 5 , 2 ) 2 + 2 nCr ( 5 , 4 ) nCr ( 10 , 4 ) \frac{\operatorname{nCr}\left(5,2\right)^2+2\operatorname{nCr}\left(5,4\right)}{\operatorname{nCr}\left(10,4\right)} which equals 11 21 \frac{11}{21} , 11 + 21 = 32

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