Question 1207318
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Hi can you help me with this problem. Does it matter what the couple are, or do we just say two people are a couple.
The drama club buys tickets for 12 seats in a row for a local production, and then sends the tickets randomly 
to the 12 people who ordered seats. Of these 12 people, 7 are female and 5 are male. Determine the probability that:
a) A couple will receive tickets sitting together.
b) The women will be seated together and the men will be seated together.
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Obviously,  your question relates to the word  " couple "  in question  (a).


This notion/conception/object  " couple "  is  NOT  defined in the body of the problem,  neither explicitly nor implicitly;
therefore,  formally,  there is no proper logical connection between the body of the problem and the question.


It is very  BAD  (inappropriate)  style writing/formulating/presenting  Math problems.


I would say,  that due to this deficiency,  the given text is not a Math problem,  at all.


Simply soup of words,  instead.



From the post,  it is clear that a person who created this composition, 
has no right idea what is a  Math problem,  at all.


I see such defective compositions every day at this forum;  sometimes,  even several times per day.



Simply many people,  who think that they create  Math problems and disseminate their writing 
in the Internet,  do not have necessary professional skills to write  Math properly.



Of course, if reading soup of words is fun for you, then you won't care about these details.
But if you come for knowledge and want to learn to speak mathematically in a right way,
then you must pay the closest attention to the accuracy of your language.



There are no math problems without internal harmony in their formulations.