From the first 25 positive integers, 17 are randomly chosen. What is the probability that we can find two integers whose product is a perfect square?
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Write the positive integers in a x 2 y formula, where x is a positive integer, and y is a square free positive integer. (Square free means that except 1 it doesn't have a divisor, which is a square number.) Looking at the first 2 5 positive integer, the possible values of y are:
1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 1 0 , 1 1 , 1 3 , 1 4 , 1 5 , 1 7 , 1 9 , 2 1 , 2 2 , 2 3
This is 1 6 numbers. So if we choose 1 7 numbers, then there will be two numbers, which y 's are equal, so the product of them will be a square number.
So the answer is 1 .