2016 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 13
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Two different numbers are randomly selected from the set and multiplied together. What is the probability that the product is ?
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Solution 1
1. Identify the total number of ways to select two different numbers from the set:
The set has 6 elements. The number of ways to choose 2 different numbers from 6 is given by the combination formula: .
2. Identify the favorable outcomes:
For the product to be zero, one of the chosen numbers must be zero. The set contains one zero (0). To have a product of zero, we need to choose 0 and any other number from the remaining five numbers .
The number of ways to choose 0 and one other number from the remaining five is 5.
3. Calculate the probability:
The probability is the number of favorable outcomes divided by the total number of outcomes: .
Thus, the probability that the product is is
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Solution 2 (Complementary Counting)
Because the only way the product of the two numbers is is if one of the numbers we choose is we calculate the probability of NOT choosing a We get Therefore our answer is
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