[algogeeks] GS apti ques!

2011-08-17 Thread priya ramesh
A B and C have chance of failure of 20%, 30% and 40%. To activate the machine at least two should be active. What is the probability that machine will be active? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email

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2011-08-17 Thread Romil .......
Answer should be 0.212. Tell me if I am correct. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:30 PM, priya ramesh love.for.programm...@gmail.com wrote: A B and C have chance of failure of 20%, 30% and 40%. To activate the machine at least two should be active. What is the probability that machine will be

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2011-08-17 Thread priya ramesh
@romil: how did you solve this?? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

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2011-08-17 Thread Romil .......
Kumar's approach would not do perhaps. I simply eliminated the undesired cases. Those include the one when none of them is active and when only one of them is active. @Kumar: You should have also added the term abc. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:39 PM, priya ramesh love.for.programm...@gmail.com

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2011-08-17 Thread priya ramesh
i got 74.8% (machine works) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

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2011-08-17 Thread Romil .......
@Priya: A mistake from my side. The answer should be 1-0.212 i.e. 0.788 Sorry for this mistake. @Kumar: Yours is wrong. Check it again. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Romil ... vamosro...@gmail.com wrote: Kumar's approach would not do perhaps. I simply eliminated the undesired cases.

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2011-08-17 Thread Nitin Nizhawan
a = (1-0.2) b = (1-0.3) c = (1- 0.4) a*b*(1-c) + a*(1-b)*c + (1-a)*b*c + a*b*c = 0.788 On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Romil ... vamosro...@gmail.com wrote: @Priya: A mistake from my side. The answer should be 1-0.212 i.e. 0.788 Sorry for this mistake. @Kumar: Yours is wrong. Check it

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2011-08-17 Thread priya ramesh
A mistake from my side as well! Got 78.8% :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

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2011-08-17 Thread Rohit Srivastava
0.788 On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:23 PM, priya ramesh love.for.programm...@gmail.com wrote: A mistake from my side as well! Got 78.8% :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to

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2011-08-17 Thread priya ramesh
@rohith thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit

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2011-08-17 Thread aditya kumar
take four cases : 1) A success B success C failure 2) A success B failure C success 3) A failure B success C success 4) A , B , C = success add all the four cases :) On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:23 PM, priya ramesh love.for.programm...@gmail.com wrote: A mistake from my side as well! Got 78.8%

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2011-08-17 Thread muthu raj
Sorry The probability of machine being active is 1-0.212=0.788 *Muthuraj R IV th Year , ISE PESIT , Bangalore* On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:10 PM, muthu raj muthura...@gmail.com wrote: Even i got 0.212 *Muthuraj R IV th Year , ISE PESIT , Bangalore* On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:42 PM,

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2011-08-17 Thread muthu raj
Even i got 0.212 *Muthuraj R IV th Year , ISE PESIT , Bangalore* On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Romil ... vamosro...@gmail.com wrote: Kumar's approach would not do perhaps. I simply eliminated the undesired cases. Those include the one when none of them is active and when only one