VIT Engineering VIT Engineering Solved Paper-2007

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    A box contains 9 tickets numbered 1 to 9 inclusive. If 3 tickets are drawn from the box one at a time, the probability that they are alternatively either {odd, even, odd} or {even, odd, even}is:

    A)  \[\frac{5}{17}\]

    B)  \[\frac{4}{17}\]

    C)  \[\frac{5}{16}\]

    D)  \[\frac{5}{18}\]

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

    In out of 9 tickets, 5 tickets are odd numbers and 4 tickets are even number. Required probability\[=\left\{ \frac{{{\,}^{5}}{{C}_{1}}}{{{\,}^{9}}{{C}_{1}}} \right.\times \frac{{{\,}^{4}}{{C}_{1}}}{{{\,}^{8}}{{C}_{1}}}\times \frac{{{\,}^{4}}{{C}_{1}}}{{{\,}^{7}}{{C}_{1}}}\] \[\left. +\frac{{{\,}^{4}}{{C}_{1}}}{{{\,}^{9}}{{C}_{1}}}\times \frac{{{\,}^{5}}{{C}_{1}}}{{{\,}^{8}}{{C}_{1}}}\times \frac{{{\,}^{3}}{{C}_{1}}}{{{\,}^{7}}{{C}_{1}}} \right\}\] \[=\frac{5}{9}\times \frac{4}{8}\times \frac{4}{7}+\frac{4}{9}\times \frac{5}{8}\times \frac{3}{7}\] \[=\frac{80+60}{504}=\frac{140}{504}\] \[=\frac{5}{18}\]


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