When
5
friends, Satvik, Agnishom, Mursalin, Sandeep and Aditya enter engineering college, they see
1
0
lovely girls, each one equally attractive...
Each of the 5 boys falls in love with one of the 1 0 girls at random, independently of each other.
The probability that the 5 boys all fall in love with different girls when each boy randomly chooses one of the 1 0 girls as the girl they love, can be expressed as b a where a and b are co-prime positive integers.
Find the value of a + b .
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@satyen nabar thanks for making a question in my name (If that is really me, and not some other Aditya :P) .... Btw, @Satvik Golechha , @Sandeep Bhardwaj , Mursalin Habib are not of same age as Me and @Agnishom Chattopadhyay , so the actual (not theoretical) probability of above scenario is truly very less :P (We can't be in any college together,
age difference > 4 :'(
LOL
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hehehee.. Btw I don't think age difference is the actual reason. Age doesn't define maturity, intelligence and love extent. :P @Aditya Raut
And that too equally attractive. Interesting! What's the scale of attraction?
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Hope at least it's + ve .... For sure I won't want it with s g n ( scale of attraction ) = − 1 LOL
Yep, and also: I'm committed. <3
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Same here Agni, I'm also extremely committed.... But to TROLL !
Creative liberty :)
Total ways in which these 5 boys can fall in love = 1 0 × 1 0 × 1 0 × 1 0 × 1 0
Total ways in which there 5 boys fall in love such that their dream girls are different = 1 0 × 9 × 8 × 7 × 6
Probability that they don't clash over their dream girls = 1 0 × 1 0 × 1 0 × 1 0 × 1 0 1 0 × 9 × 8 × 7 × 6 = 2 5 × 2 5 9 × 7 × 3 = 6 2 5 1 8 9
From a probability perspective:
The first boy has probability 1 of choosing an unchosen girl; the next, a 1 0 9 probability; then 1 0 8 , and so on. Each choice is independent, so:
P = 1 ⋅ 1 0 9 ⋅ 1 0 8 ⋅ 1 0 7 ⋅ 1 0 6 = 6 2 5 1 8 9 .
1 8 9 + 6 2 5 = 8 1 4 .
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Firstly, beautiful girls in engineering college?? You do know that it is not possible?
I'm kidding. Stereotype be still rampant among all my peers. Let's get to the question.
The total number of ways that the 5 friends can fall in love is obviously 1 0 5 as each person has 1 0 choices.
Now, we need the number of cases where all of them fall for different persons. The way to do this is to choose five girls from the ten and pair them with each guy keeping in mind the order. This means we have 1 0 C 5 ways of choosing and 5 ! ways of pairing the chosen persons. Hence, the total number of favorable cases is 1 0 C 5 ∗ 5 ! . You can simply think of this as permutation of 1 0 things taken 5 at a time, i.e. 1 0 P 5 .
Therefore, the required probability is: ( 1 0 P 5 ) / 1 0 5 = 1 8 9 / 6 2 5
1 8 9 + 6 2 5 = 8 1 4