Re: In a party there were 80 males and 45 females. One pair of a male and
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21 Feb 2025, 03:22
Assuming 30 women are married to 30 men: imagine you pick the woman first, then the man. When you pick the woman, you must pick one of the married women to have any hope of getting a married couple. 30/45 = 2/3 of the women are married, so that's the probability our first selection is 'good'. Then once we've picked the married woman, we need to pick the specific man she is married to. There's 1 man she's married to, out of 80 men in total, so a 1/80 probability we pick the 'right' man. Since we need both of these things to happen, we multiply the probabilities:
(2/3) (1/80) = 1/120