SOLUTION: In a cinema there are 10 rows with each row having 25 seats. The seats are numbered. If two friends buy tickets for themselves without knowing each other, what is the probability t

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Question 926588: In a cinema there are 10 rows with each row having 25 seats. The seats are numbered. If two friends buy tickets for themselves without knowing each other, what is the probability that they'll sit next to each other?
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Here's my guess:
In each row, there are different pairs of seats
In rows, that make ways that they
can sit next to each other
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The total number of different ways that people
can be seated is:

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The probability they will sit next to each other is:

Hope I got it


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