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There are 8 married couples in a tennis club. If 1 man and 1 woman are selected at random to plan the summer tournament,find the probability that they are married to each other.

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ANSWER :

1/8

EXPLANATION :

From the problem, there are 8 married couples in a tennis club.

There are 8 men and 8 women.

The total number of outcomes is the product between the number of first picks and the number of second picks.

For the first pick, we need to pick a man and there are 8 choices.

For the second pick, we need to pick a woman and there are 8 choices.

So the total outcome will be 8 x 8 = 64

Now, getting the probability of picking 1 man and 1 woman that are married to each other.

For the first pick, we have 8 choices for men, so we have 8.

For the second pick, we only have 1 choice over 8 women, since the woman must be married to the man, so we have 1.

That will be 8 x 1 = 8

The probability is the quotient between the required picking divided by the total number of outcome.

That will be :

8/64 = 1/8

The answer is 1/8

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