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It is a small town railway station and there are 25 stations on that line. At each of the 25 stations the passengers can get tickets for any of the others 24 stations. How many different kinds of tickets do you think the booking clerk has to keep?
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- at any particular station a passenger can get a ticket of rest 24 stations.
so, for 25 stations,
no. of differ kind of tickets = 25 * 24 = 600
- 10 years agoHelpfull: Yes(28) No(2)
- there are 25 station which we can get for all 24 station except current station...
25*24=600 - 10 years agoHelpfull: Yes(3) No(1)
- at 1 station,there are 24 tickets available...so there are 25 stations. from each station,24 tickets for 24 stations are available...
thus,from 25 stations,24*25 =600 tickets are available.. - 10 years agoHelpfull: Yes(3) No(1)
- jiyo sonu kumar .. (y)
- 10 years agoHelpfull: Yes(3) No(1)
- for that small town station
24 types for different stations and 1 type of platform ticket
total 25 types - 10 years agoHelpfull: Yes(2) No(7)
- 25C2*2 IS ANSWER
EXPLANATION
25C2 = SAME CONCEPT AS OF HANDSHAKING
*2 = BECAUSE HERE TWO TYPES OF TICKET FOR EACH PAIR OF STATION (UP AND DOWN ) - 9 years agoHelpfull: Yes(2) No(0)
- the ans is 24!
- 10 years agoHelpfull: Yes(1) No(4)
- each of the 25 stations has to keep (25 - 1) = 24 types of tickets ... .. So for 25 stations .. there are 24*24*24*..... .... 25 times .. i.e = 24^25
- 9 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)
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