There are 2 fair N and M sided Dice (say A and B) . The roll on dice A is called A and B for dice B. If M>N and P(B</=A)=0.1 , M is a multiple of which integer?
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There are a few issues with this problem.
1) You've put no constraints on M , N to be integers. If M is allowed to be any arbitrary positive number, it's impossible to conclude that M needs to be integral, much less a multiple of 5 .
2) By constraining the random numbers to be at least 1 , you have broken the problem. Consider this: if I let M = 2 and N = 6 , and use uniform distributions for both A and B , then my distribution satisfies the requirements. But N is not a multiple of 5 . What happened? It's clear that you want the distributions to range from 0 to M , N respectively. And then, if you have uniform distributions and P ( B ≤ A ) = 0 . 1 , it follows that M = 5 N .
3) My pet peeve: please don't use "random" to mean "random and uniform" when discussing probability distributions. Unless you constrain these distributions to be uniform, there really is no way to solve this problem.
Thank you very much but I don't have any knowledge about uniform probability distributions ,so can you please do me a favour of uploading the correct version of this problem with a solution
When I calculated the P(B</=A) for N=6 and M=2 I got 1/12 , assuming the 1 st condition, however I did not assume the 2 nd condition i.e the upper limits lie between 0 to any integer
Hmm...I guess you are using "random number" to mean "random integer". If you use "random integer" than for N = 6 and M=2 there are 12 outcomes. If you use it to mean "random real number" then for N=6 and M=2 the measure of the space is 5 ( it's a rectangle of height 5 and width 1) and the measure of the space "B leq A" is the area of the triangle with base 1 and height 1, i.e. 1/2. Thus the probability of " B leq A" is (1/2) / 5 = 1/10.
What you need to say is "let generator A select an integer between 1 and N (inclusive) and let generator B select an integer between 1 and M (inclusive). If P(B \leq A) = 0.1, M must be a multiple of which integer?"
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Here is my explanation please tell if it is correct, First i will find a general formula for the problem if a = 1 then p(b>a)= n n − 1 if a=2 then P(b>a)= n n − 2 . . . if a = k then P(b>a)= n n − k so our net probability turns out to be = n m n − 1 + n − 2 + n − 3 . . . n − m =1- 2 m n − 1 =P(b>a) hence the P(b</=a)= 2 m n − 1 =0.1 ergo,m=5(n-1) ergo m is a multiple of 5.