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Combinatorics solution

Posted By: Maik Stiebler
Date: Tuesday, 9 April 2019, at 7:36 p.m.

In Response To: Probability puzzle (Ray Kershaw)

There are eight players in total, four of them lose in the first round, two of them in the second. There are 28 ways to choose 2 from 8 elements, 6 ways to choose 2 from 4 and one way to choose 2 from 2. (1+6)/28 = 1/4.

If there are 16 players, there are 120 ways to choose two of them. (1+6+28)/120=7/24

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