Mathematics · Probability
JEE Advanced 2018 — Paper 1 — Question 48
There are five students and in a music class and for them there are five seats and arranged in a row, where initially the seat is allotted to the student . But, on the examination day, the five students are randomly allotted the five seats.
For i=1, 2, 3, 4, let T denote the event that the students S and S do NOT sit adjacent to each other on the day of the examination. Then, the probability of the event T T T T is
- Option A:
- Option B:
- Option C:Correct
- Option D:
Answer: C
Step-by-step solution
Same number of ways in reverse order
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- Exam
- JEE Advanced 2018
- Paper
- Paper 1
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Chapter
- Probability
- Topic
- Addition Theorem, Venn Diagrams and Types of Events