# numbers + probability

• January 18th 2009, 10:57 PM
numbers + probability
What is the probability that a two digit number chosen at random will be a multiple of 3 and not of 5 .
• January 18th 2009, 11:19 PM
mr fantastic
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What is the probability that a two digit number chosen at random will be a multiple of 3 and not of 5 .

One way is just to write out all two digit numbers that are multiples of 3 and cross out those that are also a multiple of 5 .... How many are there ....? Now divide by the total number of two digit numbers.
• January 20th 2009, 10:20 AM
Soroban

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What is the probability that a two digit-number chosen at random
will be a multiple of 3 and not of 5?

There are 90 two-digit numbers.

One-third of them are mutliples of 3: . $\frac{90}{3} \:=\:30$ multiples of 3.

But every fifth one of them is a multiple of 5: . $\frac{30}{5} \:=\: 6$ multiples of 15.

Hence, there are: . $30 - 6 \:=\:{\color{blue}24}$ multiples of 3 which are not multiples of 5.

Therefore: . $P(\text{multiple of 3, not 5}) \:=\:\frac{24}{90} \:=\:\frac{4}{15}$