A manager decides to distribute Rs . 20000 between two employees X and Y . He knows X deserves more than Y ,…

A manager decides to distribute Rs.20000 between two employees X and Y. He knows X deserves more than Y, but does not know how much more. So, he decides to arbitrarily break Rs.20000 in to two parts and gives X the bigger part. Then, the chance that X gets twice as much as Y or more is
  1. 25
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. 23

Solution

Given,

X gets the bigger part than Y

So, the bigger part could be any number from 10000 to 20000.

Now, if the bigger part is to be at least twice as much as the smaller part, we have

X2Y

X220000-X

X400003
So, the probability is equal to 20000-40000/320000-10000=23

Hence the answer is  23

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2022 (04 Jul Shift 2)

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