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There are $5$ girls and $5$ boys in a chess club. The club holds a round-robin tournament in which every player plays against every other player exactly once.

What fraction of the games are boy-versus-boy? Enter your answer as a fraction in simplified form.

User Ilyas
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Answer:

25

Explanation:

The answer above me is wrong, for which I have actually did the question, the answer is 25

There are $5$ girls and $5$ boys in a chess club. The club holds a round-robin tournament-example-1
User Apelsoczi
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To get the total number of games possible, we will use the combination formula.
Total number of games :
_(10)C_(2) = 45

Total of 45 games in the whole tournament.

Meanwhile, if there would be boy-versus-boy, we will have
_(5)C_(2)
The answer is 10.

The fraction for boy-versus-boy game will be 10/45 or 2/9 when simplified.
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