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Friday, 22 November 2013

Division one number by another-probability-rejoinder

 This is with reference to my previous blog where we consider any number A between 10 and 1000-remove the last digit to get number B-We wanted the probability of B evenly dividing A.
Total number of choices possible for A----1000-9=991
Following give correct divisibility by B-
1)All numbers ending with zero (like 450)---------109
2)All multiples of 11 below 100 (like 22,33 etc)-----8
3) Six other cases-24,26,28,36,39,48---------------6
Total----------------------------------------------123
The probability is hence 123/991

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